Back In Time - The American Dollar

February 25, 2008 - 3,435 views

I have a fascination for vintage stuff. I like seeing what people wore a few decades ago or what they did for fun. This time, I found what people used decades or centuries ago as a currency. Some really interesting designs, some better - I say - than the current bills we use.

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6 Responses to “Back In Time - The American Dollar”

  1. Koryu_Ninja on March 11th, 2008 10:14 pm

    Notice they all say, “Payable to the bearer on demand”. Look for that on current bills, it’s not there. Because during Vietnam the government was lacking in money, so what did they decide to do? Make more! So they printed out more bills, and soon there wasn’t nearly enough money in the US treasury to be able to pay back the amount of money America had pumped out. This is the reason why the US dollar is so low in worth these days.

    Stupid America. 0_o

  2. Tim on May 19th, 2008 5:48 pm

    They used to say that because it was backed by silver and gold. Obviously it wouldn’t make sense to have it on there now because as you said the dollar value is based on dollars printed now.

  3. ubercheez on July 17th, 2008 4:05 am

    Notice how they didn’t have “in God We Trust” either. That didn’t appear on the bills till late 50’s thanks to Senator McCarthy and the Red Scare. FYI it first appeared on coins during the civil war if I recall correctly.

    Looks like our founding fathers didn’t want that crap on our currency all along.

  4. Johnny Mnemonic on August 13th, 2008 9:43 pm

    The ‘Payable to the bearer on demand’ has disappeared, rather than because of the vietnam issue mentioned by Koryu, because of a
    federal reserve scam
    an in-consitutional act that allowed the
    PRIVATE bank named ‘federal reserve’ not at all federal, in fact, nor public to CREATE bills at will, so that the united states people would pay the
    LOAN, to a PRIVATE bank, on the bills, differently than what happened before, where the bills had actual value in gold.

    I repeat: the current system is based on a scam, founded and promoted by miserable insects, to favor even more miserable worms.

    You better watch the film
    ZEITGEIST
    and wake up, america.

  5. Numismatica on October 17th, 2008 11:35 pm

    Te felicito por el post, excelentes imagenes.
    Congratulations for the post. Excelent pics

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