A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

by Stephen Mihm (Author)

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  Paperback
  2009

  $42.97

  Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. 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.