William G. Sumner, a professor of Political & Social Sciences at Yale,
wrote his history of American currency in 1874. The full title of his
treatise is A History of American Currency with Chapters on The English Bank
Restriction and Austrian Paper Money. He covers everything from
American Indian Wampumpeag currency (which traded at an exchange rate of 6 white
beads or three black beads to an English penny) to the then-recent Panic of
1873. My price for this cloth-bound, 5" by 8" book of 391 pages
in good condition is $125.00.
