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Easy Money

American Puritans and the Invention of Modern Currency
  • Dror Goldberg
2023
The University of Chicago Press

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Detail of a five-shilling Massachusetts Colony note, the only surviving piece of the colony’s 1690 legal tender.
Book Review

‘Easy Money’ Review: The Currency and the Commonwealth

Saddled with debt and forbidden by the crown to mint money, Boston’s Puritans dreamed up a novel monetary system that we still use today.
by Adam Rowe via The Wall Street Journal on March 31, 2023
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