The whole area endured a barbaric and messy civil war with the USA and USSR backing opposing factions. There was a less than successful peacekeeping operation by the United Nations, which ws heavily criticised at the time and since.
Following several protests in the colonies, William Pitt, with the backing of several British manufacturing and merchant interests, took up the colonists' cause, demanding a repeal of the act.
The dollar was backed by gold in 1933 and the recall was designed at least in part to stop the run on banks; the dollar no longer has any metal backing.
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When the role of the government in maintaining or backing the money supply is in question, the issue of credibility enters decisions.
In the 1960s and through the 1970s the Franklin Mint, the brainchild of Joseph Segel, sold hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of commemorative medals to the public, at first billing them as an excellent investment, then backing off and describing ...
In 1845 another 1 sol (Figure 6) was struck (backing away from stage two as there is no portrait nor mention of Ballivian's name) referring to his accomplishment of freeing Bolivia from the Peruvian invasion four years earlier.
Green bought with passion, with a checking account backing him up, beginning in the era of World War I, and continuing with great energy throughout the 1920s, and into the 1930s.
In this way the stored value (usually in gold or silver coins) backing the banknote could transfer ownership in exchange for goods or services.
Before the US government created a national banknote, many private banks issued their own paper money without government backing. These banks eventually closed and those banknotes were counterfeited and altered.
Mobutu, with the backing of the military, again removed the two politicians and took control of the country becoming president in 1965, this time he outlawed political parties identifying them as the root of the nations problems.
1602 Dutch East India Company founded
This company provides the financial backing for Dutch competition with England in the Far East for control of the pepper market.
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Large ingots of copper issued by Sweden in the 1600's and 1700's. Originally intended to serve only as backing for one of the earliest series of banknotes in Europe, these large "coins" entered circulation when confidence in the banknotes collapsed.
A medium of exchange such as a coin which is accepted at a face value which is greater than its intrinsic value as a result of backing by the issuing authority (usually government).
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The blank or unused portions behind the design on a coin.
The design returned for a two-year curtain call in 1934, largely because more cartwheels were needed as backing for silver certificates. The 1934-S proved to be one of the key coins in the series, along with the 1921 and the 1928.
Fiat Money - A medium of exchange where we accept the value that a government or issuing body puts on something. Real money has an intrinsic or metal value, fiat money has the backing in principal of a government.
Groups of cowries have been found in Shang and early Zhou tombs, backing up this epigraphic evidence.
As a result of these continued increases, the price of goods and services skyrocket, ultimately devatating the wealth of the population. Only the backing of the currency with tangibles such as gold or land with the cycle of financial destruction end.
As a result, many quaint and colorful products came off the nation's private printing presses, and were injected into the streams of commerce with little more integrity and sound backing than the puffery or supposed good reputation of their issuers.
In that year America went off the gold standard and since then all the necessary backing for its note issue has been in the form of bullion. The issue of gold dollars was of a much shorter duration, they were only struck until 1889.
fair - A very heavily worn coin. Date may only be partially visible. One of the lowest grades of a coin, F-2. fiat money - currency or coin that looses it's value, retaining no substantial backing.
Finally, gold coins of the United States of America were imported to serve as backing for currency and as a bullion reserve. These included the eagle, valued at 10 dollars, as well as the half eagle and double eagle.
 See also: Coin, Dollar, Silver, Issued, Denomination
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