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Excerpt from Fractional Money: A History of the Small Coins and Fractional Paper Currency of the United States There are, however, material dierences of function between the currency of retail trade and the money of larger denominations used in more important transactions, and it is desirable to find a line of demarcation between the two types. From the standpoint of United States currency this line Should be drawn at the value of one dollar, even though the Silver dollar has been for many years a small change coin. Coins and paper notes of a value less than one dollar are best described by the term fractional currency. For the purposes of this study the term will be used to include all money of this value that has been used by the people of the United States, whether its material was precious metal, base metal, or paper, whether it was of foreign origin, colo nial issue, national government issue, or private manufacture, and whether it was of standaril money quality or subordinate character. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.