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Ep. 20 – Fractional Currency and a New Financial System
Coins, Currency & American History
The Civil War changed the American financial system. Its patchwork of coins and local bank notes gave way to more centralized federal paper money and one of the most practical – and collectible – innovations in our numismatic history: Fractional Currency...
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