2021 LAUNCH -- MONEY MATTERS OF THE CIVIL WAR - ABE LINCOLN'
ABE LINCOLN - In "Abe's Office"
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
"Mr. LINCOLN" interviewed for Coin Television.com by Author Rick Lank
"Mr. Lincoln" was brilliantly portrayed by Dennis Boggs, cultural/historical actor, at the PAN Coin Show.. "Mr. Lincoln" met with Co-Author/presenter Rebecca Rush to discuss the "Loyal Women" at the home-fronts who organized and provided food & goods and raised $millions through Sanitary Fairs for the Union.
"Mr. LINCOLN" interviewed for Coin Television.com by Author Rick Lank
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
"Mr. LINCOLN" interviewed for Coin Television.com by Author Rick Lank
Author Rick Lank conducts an interview for Coin Television with Mr. Lincoln about his role authorizing three new U.S. Mints in the West: Denver, CO, Carson City, NV & ...The Dalles OR???? We can tell you more!
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
The amazing Augustus St. Gaudens 1923 Bust of Lincoln (Brooklyn Museum) is used above. Money Matters by Lincoln included his authorizing our first "Greenbacks", a new National Banking System...and a Secret Service to track & prosecute counterfeiters...
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Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Money was the "Sinew of War". Lincoln and his extraordinary advisors made massive "wartime" change
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Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Our first "fiat currency" was debated...and authorized, in 1862...and thereafter was launched a new industry of designing, printing, cutting, and circulating paper US money. Note that our Greenbacks were not backed by Gold or Silver...
Billions of units of Confederate Paper money was also printed...mostly as promissory notes. And estimated 30%+ of all money in circulation at the end of the war was COUNTERFEIT! Lincoln signed the law creating a Secret Service which hunted down and prosecuted counterfeiters....
PRINTING MONEY: New Industry, New Jobs...including Jobs for WOMEN!
Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Before the Civil War, the US Did Not Print Money...it Only Minted Coins...
Mr. Francis Spinner, Treasurer, needed many new workers to cut, trim and sign the hundreds of thousands of new paper bills to be circulated....and he solved this massive challenge by hiring women! Hundreds of women got good jobs in the Treasury Department...and many continued there for decades after the war ended.
The Civil War opened the door for these early "Rosie the Riveters"...women who took jobs so that make clerks could serve in other ways...Note that many of the women were widows or lost a loved one and needed income to care for those left behind. We devote great stories to the Treasury Girls and would like to learn more!