On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Richard Esplin <richard-li...@esplins.org> wrote: > I can't find the other episode. I think it was one from NPR's Planet Money. > But > it describes how each shop owner had to have a book of currencies with > exchange rates that was updated regularly. The further you got from your town, > the less your bank note was worth. It provided a lot of friction in > transactions and sounded like a huge pain.
I believe this is the droid you're looking for. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/12/07/166747693/episode-421-the-birth-of-the-dollar-bill Corey /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
