De amerikanska koloniernas egna pengar

De amerikanska kolonierna gav från 1600-talet och framåt ut egna regionala valutor.

Lista över koloniernas pengar (efter koloni)

Ett exemplar av Massachusetts delstatsvaluta, en tolv pence-sedel (en shilling), tryckt 1776.[1]
Koloni/delstat Papperspengarna
trycktes först år:
Connecticutpund 1709
Delawarepund 1723
Georgiapund 1735
Marylandpund 1733
Massachusettspund 1690
New Hampshirepund 1709
New Jerseypund 1709
New Yorkpund 1709
North Carolinapund 1712
Pennsylvaniapund 1723
Rhode Islandpund 1710
South Carolinapund 1703
Virginiapund 1755

Kontinentals

Continental One Third Dollar Note (obverse)
En continentalsedel i valören femtiofem dollar från 1779.

Efter det amerikanska frihetskriget start 1775 började kontinentalkongressen att trycka en valuta som blev känd som Continental currency eller Continentals.

Bibliography

  • Allen, Larry. The Encyclopedia of Money. 2nd edition. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO, 2009. ISBN 9781598842517.
  • Flynn, David. "Credit in the Colonial American Economy". EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. March 16, 2008.
  • Michener, Ron. "Money in the American Colonies". EH.Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. June 8, 2003.
  • Newman, Eric P. The Early Paper Money of America. 3rd edition. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications, 1990. ISBN 087341120X.
  • Wright, Robert E. One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008. ISBN 9780071543934.

Vidare läsning

  • Brock, Leslie V. 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 0405072570.
  • 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 Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1973. ISBN 080781217X.

Externa länkar

  • The Leslie Brock Center for the Study of Colonial Currency
  • Currency Issues to Overcome Depressions in Pennsylvania, 1723 and 1729
  • Creating the U.S. Dollar Currency Union,1748-1811: A Quest for Monetary Stability or a Usurpation of State Sovereignty for Personal Gain?

Referenser

  1. ^ Newman, 185–86.