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Abraham Lincoln was portrayed on the 1861 $10 Demand Note; Salmon Chase, Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury, approved his own portrait for the 1862 $1 Legal Tender Note; Winfield Scott was depicted on Interest Bearing Notes during the early 1860s; William P. Fessenden (U.S. Senator and Secretary of the Treasury) appeared on fractional currency ...
President of the Republic of Guatemala (1921–1926); responsible for the introduction of the quetzal as Guatemala's national currency 1 quetzal Obverse 1972 (paper), 2006 (polymer) Justo Rufino Barrios: 1835–1885 President of Guatemala (1873–1885) 5 quetzales Obverse 1969 (paper), 2011 (polymer) Miguel García Granados: 1809–1878
The first act, the Currency Act 1751 (24 Geo. 2. c. 53), restricted the issue of paper money and the establishment of new public banks by the colonies of New England. [7] These colonies had issued paper fiat money known as "bills of credit" to help pay for military expenses during the French and Indian Wars.
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The currency of the American colonies, 1700–1764: a study in colonial finance and imperial relations. Dissertations in American economic history. New York: Arno Press, 1975. ISBN 0-405-07257-0. Ernst, Joseph Albert. Money and politics in America, 1755–1775: a study in the Currency act of 1764 and the political economy of revolution. Chapel ...
Upon issuing the new currency, the Free State government pegged its value to the pound sterling. The Currency Act, 1927 was passed as a basis for creating banknotes and the "Saorstát pound" (later the "Irish pound") as the "standard unit of value." The legal tender notes issued under this act began circulating on 10 September 1928.
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French magistrate, Holocaust survivor, and politician who served as Health Minister in several governments and was President of the European Parliament (1979-1982); best remembered for advancing women's rights in France, in particular for the 1975 law that legalized abortion, today known as the Veil Act (French: Loi Veil); member of the ...