

United States
10 Cents "Postage Currency" · “Postage Currency”
United States
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Postage Currency: when America printed money that looked like stamps
In the summer of 1862, the small change of the United States simply vanished. Frightened by war, people hoarded every coin they could find, and pennies, dimes and quarters disappeared from cash drawers across the North. The government's strange, brilliant fix: print money that looked like postage stamps — and call it Postage Currency.
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