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2. Gold certificate (United States) - Wikipedia

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   Gold certificates were issued by the United States Treasury as a form of representative money from 1865 to 1933. While the United States observed a gold standard, the certificates offered a more convenient way to pay in gold than the use of coins. General public ownership of gold certificates was outlawed in 1933 and since then they have been ...

3. History of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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   t. e. The history of the United States dollar began with moves by the Founding Fathers of the United States of America to establish a national currency based on the Spanish silver dollar, which had been in use in the North American colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain for over 100 years prior to the United States Declaration of Independence.

4. Gold dollar - Wikipedia

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   The gold dollar or gold one-dollar piece is a gold coin that was struck as a regular issue by the United States Bureau of the Mint from 1849 to 1889. The coin had three types over its lifetime, all designed by Mint Chief Engraver James B. Longacre. The Type 1 issue has the smallest diameter (0.5 inch =12.7mm) of any United States coin minted to ...

5. United States Mint coin sizes - Wikipedia

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   The figures cited in the tables are representative of the series, and are generally the latest, or most common, figures for a given coin type. The largest coin ever minted by the US Mint was the 2019 Apollo 50th anniversary 5ounce silver dollar, weighing 155.517 grams, and 76.2 mm in diameter. [5]

6. Greenback (1860s money) - Wikipedia

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   Greenbacks were emergency paper currency issued by the United States during the American Civil War that were printed in green on the back. [ 1 ] They were in two forms: Demand Notes, issued in 1861–1862, [ 1 ] and United States Notes, issued in 1862–1865. [ 2 ] A form of fiat money, the notes were legal tender for most purposes and carried ...

7. Banknotes of the United States dollar - Wikipedia

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   They switched to small size in 1929 and are the only type of currency in circulation today in the United States. They were originally printed in denominations of $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000. The $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations were last printed in 1945 and discontinued in 1969, making the $100 bill ...

8. United States dollar - Wikipedia

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   United States dollar. The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.

9. Archaeologists Found a Secret Stash of Gold Coins That ...

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   Archaeologists Found a Secret Stash of Gold Coins That Rewrite the History of War. Gold coins buried in a small pot and dated to the fifth century B.C. were discovered in modern-day Turkey ...