TY  - GEN
T1  - Pictures from a distant country : images on 19th century U.S. currency
A1  - Doty, Richard D.
LA  - English
PP  - Raleigh, NC
PB  - Boson Books
YR  - 2004
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm61397566
AB  - Everyone knows that there is only one form of American currency, the product of a single issuer. The currency is the Greenback, and the issuer is the federal government. But this arrangement has not always been the rule: for much of the nation's history (including what many would see as its most dynamic period of growth) there was no federal currency in circulation. Instead, there were the products of private banks and other businesses, which had or took upon themselves the right and responsibility to issue currency. We call this private money obsolete bank notes, and they form the basis of t.
CN  - HG591 .D68 2004eb
SN  - 1932482156
SN  - 9781932482157
KW  - Paper money design : United States.
KW  - Art monétaire : États-Unis.
KW  - CRAFTS & HOBBIES : Printmaking.
KW  - ART : Prints.
KW  - Paper money design
KW  - United States
ER  -