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Subsidiary Coins.-Coins which are issued by public authority but are

not full legal tender.

Token Coins.-Coins not issued by any recognized authority, generally

of small value and current only on sufferance.

Treasury Notes.-Paper money issued by the Government.
Type.-"The design on the face of a medal or coin" (Chambers).

LIST OF AUTHORITIES

ANDRÉADÉS: History of the Bank of England.
AVEBURY: Short History of Coins and Currency.
BAGEHOT: Lombard Street.

BANCROFT History of the United States.

BOLLES: Financial History of the United States.
BOYNE: Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century.
Silver Tokens of Great Britain and Ireland.

BRECKENRIDGE: Legal Tender.

BURGON: Life and Times of Gresham.

CARLILE: Evolution of Modern Money.

CHALMERS: History of Currency in the British Colonies.
CLARE: Foreign Exchanges.

CONANT: Modern Banks of Issue.

CUNNINGHAM: Growth of English Commerce and Industry.
DARWIN, L.: Bimetallism.

Questions to be Considered by the Indian Currency
Committee.

DEL MAR England's Halcyon Age.

History of the Monetary Systems of England.

DEWEY, D. R.: The Second United States Bank.

EDEN: State of the Poor.

FARRER: Studies in Currency.

FRANCIS: History of the Bank of England.

FROUDE: History of England under the Tudors.

GIFFIN: Essays in Finance.

GILBART History and Principles of Banking.

Enquiry into the Causes of the Pressure on the Money
Market in 1839.

GOSCHEN: The Foreign Exchanges.

GRUEBER: Handbook of Coins of Great Britain and Ireland.
A Guide to the Department of Coins and Medals.

HANKEY: The Principles of Banking.

HAWKINS: Silver Coins of the Realm.

HEPBURN : History of the Coinage in the United States.

HORTON, DANA: The Silver Pound.

JENKINSON: Coins of the Realm.

JEVONS: Investigations in Currency and Finance.
LEAKE Historical Account of English Money.

LOCKE: The Value of Money.

MACCULLOCH: Select Collection of Tracts on Money.

MACLEOD: The Principles of Banking.

MITCHELL: History of the Greenbacks.

MORAWETZ Banking and Currency Problems in the United States. MUN: English Treasure by Foreign Trade.

NORMAN : Opinions from the Fifth Century B.C. to 1888 on Money. NOYES: Forty Years of American Finance.

PETTY: The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty.

PHILLIPS, MABERLEY: A Paper on Side Lights in Banking History. A History of Banks, Bankers, and Banking in Northumberland, Durham, and North York

shire.

PRICE: Money in its Relation to Prices.

RIDGEWAY: Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards. ROGERS, THOROLD: History of Prices.

Economic Interpretation of History.

RUDING: Annals of the Coinage.

SAUERBECK: Prices and the Precious Metals.

SCHOENHOF: History of Money and Prices.

SHAW: History of Currency.

Beginnings of the National Debt.

Monetary Movements of 1600 to 1621 in Holland and Germany.

SMITH, SIDNEY: Letters on American Debts.

SMOLLET: History of England from the Revolution to the Death of George II.

SUMNER: Alexander Hamilton.

Financier and Finances of the American Revolution.

History of Banking in the United States.

TOOKE: Thoughts and Details on the High and Low Prices in the last Thirty Years.

WALKER: Money.

WEEDON: Economic and Social History of New England.

Indian Money as a Factor in New England Civilization. WHITE, H. Money and Banking Illustrated by American History. WILDMAN: Money Inflations in the United States.

WITHERS, HARTLEY: The Meaning of Money.

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INDEX

Acts of Parliament: 1283 (Statute
of Merchants), 67; 1303, 67;
1587, 100; 1663, 84; 1666,
84; 1707 (Act of Union), 164;
1709, 120; 1717, 97, 134;
1741, 237; 1751, 236; 1764,
236; 1774, 100, 134; 1775,
121; 1793, 122; 1798, 102,
123, 134; 1812, 104; 1816,
104, 134; 1819, 128, 142;
1844 (Peel's Bank Charter
Act), 152, 159, 161, 175,
187, 220, 340; (Bank Charter
Act applied to Scotland), 167,
168, 170; (Bank Charter Act

314, 315; 1866 (Greenback
Reserve Act), 314; 1873 (Re-
vision of the Coinage Act),
317-19, 321, 330; 1875 (Specie
Resumption Act), 316, 317;
1878, 317, 322, 325; 1878
(Bland Allison Act), 321;
1890 (Sherman Act), 323, 325,
326, 332; 1900 (Currency
Act), 325, 326, 330; 1908
(Aldrich Vreeland Act), 328,
329

Adams, John, 243, 248
Addington, 124

Aelfric, 5

Africa, 24

applied to Ireland), 173; | Agency Houses, 207
(Bank Charter Act applied | Alabama, 275

to India), 207; 1861, 207; | Albata, II

1870, 139, 140, 223; 1870

Album Money, 10

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202; 1889, 140; 1893, 205,
206; 1905 (Indian Currency
Act), 208

Acts of Congress: 1791 (Federal

Mint Act), 259; 1792 (Coin-
age Act), 256, 259; 1806,
261; 1834, 262; 1853 (Sub-
sidiary Coinage Act), 263,
301; 1862 (Coin Purchase
Act), 294; 1857, 303; 1862
(Legal Tender Act), 292, 297,
304, 312; 1863, 295-6; 1864,
308; 1865, 311; 1866, 313,

America, 159, 160, 165
Amsterdam, 70

Andros, Sir Edward, 232
Angel, 32, 41, 58, 80
Anna, 202, 207
Anticipations, 241
Aquitaine, 9

Argentine Republic, 162
Art of Multiplication, 31
Articles of Confederation, 255
Assayers, 14
Assignats, IOI

Athelstan, 12
Aureus, 2

Australasia, 188, 206, 211, 213
Australia, 188, 212, 216

Austria, 197

B

Bagehot, 176, 181

Balance of Trade, 67

Bancroft, 252

Bank: Bank of England :- Foun-
dation, 77, 79; Notes, 117, 123,
146, 149, 154, 156, 175, 176,
177, 341; Monopoly, III-14,
121, 150, 340; Management,
185-7; Bank and South Sea
Company, 114-16; Bank
and Jacobite Revolt, 116-17;
Branches, 147, 174; Resump-
tion of Cash Payments, 128-
42; Suspension of Cash
Payments, 102, 121-8; Re-
newal of Charter, 113, 148,
162; Gold Reserve, 181-5 :
Discount Rate, 183-5, 328, 338
Country Banks (England), 121,
122, 124, 128, 145-7, 156, 157
Joint-Stock Banks (England),
113, 120, 150, 165, 175
Land Bank, 79, III, 112
Bank of Amsterdam, 69, 70
Bank of France, 151, 328
Bank of Genoa, 69
Bank of Venice, 68

Banks of Australia, 215, 216
Banks of Canada, 218-23
Banks of India, 201, 207

Banks of Ireland, 172–4

Banks of Scotland, 164–
Banks of South Africa, 217
Banks of the United States :-
Colonial Banks of New England,
236-7; Free Banking System,
282-3; National Banks, 308-

12, 324, 327, 331; National
Bank notes, 333; Bank of
North America, 256-8; Bank
of Pennsylvania, 256; Safety
Fund System, 280-2; State
Banks, 266-7, 269, 270, 274,
275, 276-87, 290, 311, 324,
327; Suffolk Bank, 280-2;
First Bank of the United
States, 264-7; Second Bank
of the United States, 270-7
Bank notes, 77, 102, 110, 123, 177
Bardi, 69

Baring crisis, 162, 183, 324

Barter, 209, 212, 227, 229, 232, 247,

249

Base money, 10, 11, 28, 30, 44, 46,
47, 48, 49, 50, 170
Beaulieu, Leroy, 187, 327
Beaver skins, 228, 229
Belgium, 194, 195, 196
Bezants, 8, 28

Bill of credit, 235, 236, 284
Bill of exchange, 66, 67, 118, 178,
179, 255, 340

Bimetallism, 20-4, 41, 131, 191,
193, 195, 197, 198, 199, 204,
260, 320, 323, 339
Bimetallist, 192, 196
Black Death, 37
Black money, 27, 29
Black Prince, 20
Blanc money, 10
Bland Bill, 320

Board of Trade and Plantations,

230, 232, 234, 237

Bohemia, 2

Bond syndicate, 325

Boston, 236, 243, 245, 248, 258
281, 290
Brassage, 15

Brazil, 40, 94, 124, 160, 185, 188
Brisbane, 213

Bristol, 33, 44, 58

British North Borneo, 212

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