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All photos by Jaclyn Nash unless otherwise credited.
All images courtesy of the National Museum of American History unless otherwise credited.

The objects that appear in this book have been enlarged and reduced in size. Information about the actual dimensions of objects in the National Numismatic Collection is available on the National Museum of American History’s website www.americanhistory.si.edu.

Cover and title page image: Eight real coin, Mexico, 1762 (Figure 73b). Eight real coins were widespread in colonial America and were the world’s first global currency. They reflect and symbolize both American history and global history.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Feingold, Ellen R. (Ellen Roseanne), 1983–
    The value of money / Ellen R. Feingold.
             pages cm
    “A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge.”
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    ISBN 978-1-935623-80-9 (cloth : alkaline paper) — ISBN 978-1-935623-81-6 (ebook)
1. Numismatics—Exhibitions. 2. Money—Exhibitions. 3. Coins—Exhibitions. 4. Paper money—Exhibitions. 5. Coins—History—Exhibitions. 6. Money—History—Exhibitions. 7. Coins—Collectors and collecting—Exhibitions. 8. Money—Collectors and collecting—Exhibitions. 9. National Numismatic Collection (U.S.)—Catalogs. I. Title.
    CJ41.W38F45 2015
    737—dc23

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ISBN (eBook):  978-1-935623-81-6
ISBN (cloth):     978-1-935623-80-9

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