"The Economics of the Early Republic”
Mark Peterson, University of California, Berkeley

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Mark Peterson link is an Associate Professor of History at UC Berkeley. He received his PhD. from Harvard University and has written numerous articles and books on colonial New England.

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• Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Confederate Currency, an original virtual exhibit, available through the web site of the United States Civil War Center at LSU -- http://www.cwc.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue.
  
  
• The Coins of Colonial and Early America This Project features discussions, descriptions and images of the coins and tokens used in Colonial and Confederation America based on examples in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Notre Dame.
  http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCoin/
  
  
• Colonial Currency A companion project features Colonial and Confederation era paper currency. A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment, University of Notre Dame.
  http://www.coins.nd.edu/ColCurrency/index.html
  
  
• Coins of the UK by Tony Clayton
  This site consists of a comprehensive collection of images of coins from the United Kingdom.
  http://www.ukcoinpics.co.uk/index.html
  
  
• A Biography of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
  includes section on Hamilton's Reports on Public Credit.
  http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/B/hamilton/hamilxx.htm
  
  
• “A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States" by Stephen Mihm - Book review from New York Times online.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06
  /business/06shelf.html?_r=1
  
  
• The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse by Jane Kamensk
  read about this book at Amazon.com