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Why coins were a more desirable form of money than paper during the colonial period?
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∙ 9y ago
coins used to be a form of trade.
silver coins had higher denomination than larger copper coins.
Paper was worth next to nothing.
The paper money money was not popular because the paper money just meant that you can redeem this paper for silver.
So at that time there was no point to the paper money
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