Your Google-foo is stronger than mine!

On Sunday, January 19, 2014 09:02:50 Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Richard Esplin
> 
> <[email protected]> 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


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