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State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790 / Farley Grubb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grubb, Farley.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w17209.
- NBER working paper series no. w17209
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2011.
- Summary:
- Remittances of Continental Dollars to the national treasury from each state by year from 1779 through 1789 are used to determine state compliance with congressional resolutions regarding Continental-Dollar redemption. From 1781 through 1789, the states as a whole stayed well ahead of the remittance schedule set by Congress in 1779. Individual state compliance, however, varied considerably. By the time Congress changed redemption requirements with the Funding Act of 4 August 1790, a majority of the net new Continental Dollars ever emitted by Congress had already been redeemed by the states and remitted to the national treasury to be burned.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 2011.
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