Buch: Obsolete Paper Money Issued by Banks in the United States 1782 - 1866
Q. David Bowers
Obsolete Paper Money
Issued by Banks in the United States
1782 - 1866
A Study and Appreciation for the Numismatist and Historian
First Edition 2006
598 Seiten
Whitman Publishing, LLC, Atlanta, GA, USA
ISBN 0794822037
Aus dem Klappentext:
Over the course of more than 600 history-packed pages, Q. David Bowers explains how bank notes were engraved, printed, and distributed from the 1780s into the 1860s. In an accessible style, with entertainning stories and fascinating detail, Bowers explores the role this paper money played in American banking, finance, politics, business, and everyday life.
Between these covers, while absorbing Bowers's authoritantive text, you will marvel at nearly 1,000 detailed, full-color images that tell the tale of the early United States as only paper money can.