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Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs - more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Economic history

• Full title: Nation of Counterfeiters
• Subtitle: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
• Author: Stephen Mihm
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480
• EAN: 9780674032446
• ISBN: 0674032446
• ID: 04635262
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Weight: 588 g
• Dimensions: 220 × 144 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2009

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