Johnson (David R.), Illegal Tender : Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America
Before 1862, the United States had no government-issued paper currency. Paper money consisted of the printed notes of almost 1,400 banks chartered in the individual states. Counterfeiting was rife. According to the New York Times that year up to eighty per cent of the banknotes in circulation were...
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Crime, Histoire & Sociétés
2009
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| Accès en ligne: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |