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How many different types of money can you find? Do you know anyone who has examples of foreign currency? If so, compare foreign money to the money you use.
How is it similar? How is it different? Take a field trip to a local bank with a friend or family member. Ask for information on the types of accounts that they offer. These circulate for roughly two decades and remains legal tender.
They allow bank customers to retrieve cash from their accounts without needing to visit the bank. On July 14, , the Federal Reserve and the U.
Although they were issued until , they were last printed in Because United States notes no longer served any function not already adequately met by Federal Reserve notes, their issuance was discontinued and, beginning in , no new United States notes were placed into circulation.
Morton is the 36th Treasurer of the United States. A security thread and microprinting are introduced in Federal Reserve notes to deter counterfeiting by copiers and printers. It is the first government facility outside Washington, D. In the first significant design change since the s, U.
When held to light, a portrait watermark of President Jackson is visible from both sides of the note. In addition, the note includes a color-shifting numeral 20 in the lower right corner of the note.
When held to light, a portrait watermark of President Grant is visible from both sides of the note. In addition, the note includes a color-shifting numeral 50 in the lower right corner of the note. When held to light, a portrait watermark of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is visible from both sides of the note.
In addition, the note includes a color-shifting numeral 10 in the lower right corner of the note. A vertical pattern of three numeral 5s is situated to the left of the portrait and a large numeral 5 is located in the blank space to the right of the portrait. The Federal Reserve Board launches uscurrency. This website offers multi-lingual educational materials free for public use.
The 12 Federal Reserve Banks repurpose banknotes not fit for circulation. The banks shred and reuse money that is too worn or dirty for a number of purposes, such as insulation or compost. Skip to main content Accessibility Statement. The History of U. Currency By tracing our currency back to the colonial era, we can explore how American history has helped shape the way we design, issue, and process modern U.
Periods of Influence The following centuries proved to be pivotal for the development of our nation's currency. Period All s s s s. Oldest to Newest. Newest to Oldest. Colonial Money Military. See Transcript. Download Audio. In the past, as today, no society was completely self-sustaining, and money allowed people to interact with other groups. People used different forms of currency to mobilize resources, reduce risks and create alliances and friendships in response to specific social and political conditions.
The abundance and nearly universal evidence of movement of exotic goods over diverse regions inhabited by people who were independent of each other — from hunter-gatherers to pastoralists, to farmers and city dwellers — points to the significance of currency as a uniting principle.
The Maritime Silk Road trade , which occurred between A. Chinese coins were small disks of copper and silver with a hole in the center so they could be worn on a belt.
This coin was issued by Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty. He was interested in political and trade missions to the lands beyond the South China Sea and sent Admiral Zheng He to explore those shores, nearly 80 years before Vasco da Gama reached India from Portugal. They also show evidence that market economies based on cash money were developing at this time.
On the East African coast, there were local merchants and kings of the local Swahili who followed Islam and cultivated these external contacts with other Indian Ocean traders. They wanted to facilitate business dealings , while merchants from the Near East and South Asia had their own Rolodexes of business contacts.
However, in , when the Revolutionary War became inevitable, the Continental Congress authorized the issuance of currency to finance the conflict.
Paul Revere made the first plates for this "Continental Currency. The depreciation of this currency gave rise to the phrase "not worth a Continental. Image courtesy of United States Secret Service. After the U. Constitution was ratified, Congress passed the "Mint Act" of April 2, , which established the coinage system of the United States and the dollar as the principal unit of currency.
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