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Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. Hachette Book. ISBN 978-0316417198. Irigoin, Alejandra. "The end of a silver era: the consequences of the breakdown of the Spanish Peso standard in China and the United States, 1780s–1850s." Journal of World History (2009): 207–243. online. Jevons, W. S. Money and the Mechanism of Exchange.
In 1994, the United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, held in the case of United States of America v. U.S. Currency, $30,060.00 (39 F.3d 1039 63 USLW 2351, No. 92-55919) that the widespread presence of illegal substances on paper currency in the Los Angeles area created a situation where the reaction of a drug-sniffing dog would not ...
The U.S. government decided to substitute paper currency of denominations under a dollar for coins in order to solve the problem. The denominations issued were 3¢, 5¢, 10¢, 15¢, 25¢ and 50¢. There were five issues of fractional currency.
Using the Federal Reserve’s $2.3 trillion M0 currency figure and a current world population of 8.17 billion, per Worldometer, there’s about $282 per person in the world, on average. Using the ...
The Official Red Book: A Guide Book of United States Paper Money. Introduction and narrative by Q. David Bowers. Atlanta, GA: Whitman Publishing. ISBN 978-0-79481-786-2. Hudgeons, Marc; Hudgeons, Tom (2006). Blackbook Price Guide to United States Paper Money (38th ed.). New York City: House of Collectibles. ISBN 978-1-40004-845-8.
The result is that paper money would often lead to an inflationary bubble, which could collapse if people began demanding hard money, causing the demand for paper notes to fall to zero. The printing of paper money was also associated with wars, and financing of wars, and therefore regarded as part of maintaining a standing army. For these ...
The Secretary of the Treasury directed a reduction in paper currency from a 7 + 7 ⁄ 16 inch by 3 + 9 ⁄ 64 inch size to a 6 + 5 ⁄ 16 inch by 2 + 11 ⁄ 16 inch (6.31" × 2.69") size, which allowed the Treasury Department to produce 12 notes per 16 + 1 ⁄ 4 inch by 13 + 1 ⁄ 4 inch sheet of paper that previously would yield 8 notes at the ...
The ninth series of the Swiss franc, currently in circulation. As of 2022, the Swiss 1000-franc banknote is the world's 2nd highest value currently-issued banknote, after the Brunei $10,000 bill (worth around 6,900 Swiss francs in 2022), followed by the Singapore $1,000 note (worth around 678 CHF) and the 500 euro note (worth around 490 CHF), was demonetised.