The early North American colonists had very little hard currency, but somehow still managed to thrive in their new home. How’d they do it? Without gold or silver, what did they use as money?

This is episode 1 of The Story of Money: from Benjamin Franklin to Occupy Wall Street, a series on US financial history created by Athens Politics Nerd.

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Sources:
Money: Whence It Came, Where it Went, John Kenneth Galbraith
A Financial History of the United States, Margaret Myers

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