Early paper money from British Colonial America

Posted by pepys on Sunday April 16, 2017 @07:58PM
from the blogs.bl.uk dept.

http://blogs.bl.uk/americas/2017/04/early-paper-money-from-british-colonial-america-in-the-british-library.html

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Re:Early paper money from British Colonial America by eschutte2 on Sunday April 16, 2017 @09:31PM (#14128669)

If you're in SF, the SF Federal Reserve Bank has a display of early colonial and other US currencies. Not sure if it's open to the public all the time, but there's probably a tour. http://www.frbsf.org/education/teacher-resources/american-cu...

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Re:Early paper money from British Colonial America by gjkood on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:52AM (#14130561)

This is very interesting. I was surprised to learn that the British had three currency zones, the Pound Sterling, the Dollar and the Rupee. [1]

The Rupee was used throughout the Indian subcontinent, East Africa and Middle East wherever the British had some sort of colonial presence from the mid 1800s till after World War I.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_currency_in_the_Middle...

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Re:Early paper money from British Colonial America by bane on Monday April 17, 2017 @08:25AM (#14130440)

I keep this thread bookmarked [1] as it provides a nice history of paper money in the U.S. and seems relevant here:

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/22c5sp/one_curr...

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Re:Early paper money from British Colonial America by snowy on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:02AM (#14130599)

Thirty Shillings

To counterfeit is DEATH

How prevalent were counterfeit notes in this period vs now?

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