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

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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.