160th Anniversary : 1862-2022 Stories Feature these Themes
GREENBACKS
Before the Civil War, money was printed by States, Towns, Banks and Businesses...
A Federal Currency (Greenbacks) and Banking System replaced this mish-mash of paper money...with a Special "Green Tint" to minimize counterfeiting, which was rampant at the time.
The Treasury Girls
Producing millions of dollars of paper money required a new work force. Mr. Francis Spinner began to hire women
at the US Treasury....a first.
TOKENS -- Emergency Money
An estimated 20,000,000 tokens were privately designed and minted to make up for the severe lack of Small Change. Hoarding combined with the loss of three US Branch Mints in the South crippled local economies...without entrepreneurial token production....until 1864.
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