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The Monetary History of America to 1789: a Historiographical Essay San Jose State University SJSU ScholarWorks Faculty Publications Economics 1-1-1978 The Monetary History of America to 1789: A Historiographical Essay JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL San Jose State University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/econ_pub Part of the Economic History Commons, and the Macroeconomics Commons Recommended Citation JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL. "The Monetary History of America to 1789: A Historiographical Essay" Journal of Libertarian Studies (1978): 373-389. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Economics at SJSU ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of SJSU ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Journal ofLibertarian Srudies, Vol. 2, No.4, pp. 373- 389. 0364-6408/78/1201 - 0373 $02.00/0 © Pergamon Press Ltd. 1978. Printed in Great Britain. THE MONETARY HISTORY OF AMERICA TO 1789: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL Department of History, University of Texas In no other field is the crucial importance of specific historians, it is necessary to understand theory to history more obvious than in the field a few key concepts and to be familiar with a of economic history. One's knowledge of the general overview of the specific events. The concrete historical events may remain unchang­ monetary history of America to 1789 can be ed, but if the economic theory applied to those conveniently divided into three periods: the col­ events is altered, then one's entire historical in­ onial period (up to 1775), the revolutionary terpretation will of necessity be modified. A period (1775 -1781), and the confederation historical account can be factually accurate and period (1781-1789). Each period is distinctive, yet, if the informing economic theory is faulty, and while some historians have treated all give a totally false interpretation. Furthermore, three, many have confined themselves to one or the validity of the theory, in economics at least, the other. is often decided a priori to history, on some The colonial period contained the greatest other basis. This procedure is not objectionable variety of monetary practices, but these can be if the historian's theoretical paradigm is ex­ roughly divided into three categories. plicit. However, it makes the task of historiography more complex. One must not (I) Manipulation of the unit of account only consider the overt interpretations and ex­ The monetary standard for accounting pur­ planations offered by different historians; one poses in the colonies was the English pound, must also determine each historian's theoretical shilling, and pence. However, most of the coins framework, whether explicit or implicit, and in the colonies were Spanish or Portuguese. The subject it to theoretical criticism. standard Spanish dollar contained 387 grains of The monetary history of the British colonies silver, while the English silver shilling weighed in America and of the United States prior to the 86 grains. Therefore a dollar should have been adoption of the Constitution in 1789 is worth four shillings and six pence. The col­ extremely varied. Many different monetary ex­ onies, in the hope of attracting foreign coin and periments were tried by colonial and state specie, arbitrarily overvalued the dollar in governments. Unfortunately, the monetary terms of shillings, or in other words, devalued theory used by current historians is flawed and, the unit of account. This technique was first consequently, their rendering of the period is adopted in 1642 when Massachusetts declared unsatisfactory. In this paper, I will first the Spanish dollar equal to five shillings. Other describe how changing monetary theories have methods used to attain the same results were, been reflected in the historical accounts. Then I instead of devaluing the shilling in terms of will criticize the current accounts and, using the dollars, to devalue the shilling in terms of silver monetary theory developed by Austrian or gold. Either way, the process led to com­ economists, P 1 offer a more accurate reinter­ peting devaluations, as high as seven shillings pretation of the monetary history of the period. and six pence to the dollar, and different monetary standards in each colony. Another I expedient employed to hold coins by the col­ Before proceeding to an examination of onies was to forbid their export. 373 374 JEFFREY ROGERS HUMMEL (2) Bills of credit by issuing so-called "treasury notes" that were, Bills of credit were simply fiat paper money. in fact, paper money. They were issued in one of two ways. One way was for the government to print the money and (3) Legal tender then spend it to cover expenditures, usually the Although often treated in conjun'ction with financing of a war effort. Future taxes would bills of credit, the practice of legal tender is be pledged towards retiring the bills. The bills conceptually distinct. Legal tender could be of would be withdrawn from circulation by being two types. Public legal tender established what paid directly as taxes or by being redeemed in would be accepted as money for payment of specie that had been collected through taxes. taxes, quit-rents, and other public levies. By Often, however, when the pledged taxes came declaring something public legal tender, the due, the bills would be reissued rather than government obviously helped foster its use as withdrawn. This type of currency finance was money. Private legal tender decreed what the first employed in Massachusetts in 1690 and government would permit to be used in the pay­ eventually embraced at one time or another by ment of debts and the fulfillment of contracts. all the colonies.'" It had the effect of fixing the value of the The other way of issuing bills of credit was monetary good in terms of the unit of account. through land banks. Instead of spending the For instance, when tobacco was declared legal money directly, the issuer would loan the tender, it had to be set at a certain rate of money out at interest with land as security. pounds of tobacco to shillings. This fixed rate When the principal on the loan was repaid, the was either set by statute or left up to the courts. bills might either be reloaned or retired. The If two or more goods were legal tender, then the issuer could be a group of private individuals or exchange rate between them was officially fix­ the government. Although private land banks ed. Exchange rates set by statute never coincid­ were frequently proposed, they only operated ed with market exchange rates; exchange rates briefly during the 1740s in Massachusetts."' set on an ad hoc basis by the courts might Government land banks appeared in all the possibly do so. The discrepancy between legal colonies. and market rates of exchange was the source of It should be noted that the term "bills of perennial complaints by creditors, because it credit" is used here in the generic sense, in­ allowed debtors to pay their debts with over· cluding both types of paper money. Sometimes valued money. Private legal tender at different the term is used to refer only to paper money times was used to fix the exchange rates bet· paid out directly to cover government expenses. ween quite a variety of goods: wampum and The term is a misnomer, anyway, because in specie, tobacco and specie, heavy coins and neither case was the bill of credit a credit instru­ light coins, paper money and specie, gold and ment. It did not represent borrowings of the silver, etc. Paper money was frequently, but government repayable in money at some future not always, declared private legal tender by the date; it was money. This was true despite the issuing colony. De facto, paper money was fact that bills of credit sometimes paid interest. always public legal tender (if only at the loan Colonial governments also engaged in actual bank that had issued it or for the taxes pledged borrowing. For this they issued treasury notes toward its redemption), although Parliamen­ comparable to private bills of exchange, and tary restrictions prevented this from always be­ these, of course, were credit instruments and ing formally admitted. not money. Unfortunately, the colonial govern­ Other monetary experiments of limited scope ments blurred the distinction between credit and less interest include Massachusetts' suc· transactions (involving the exchange of a pre­ cessful but temporary running of a mint bet­ sent good for a claim to a future good) and cur­ ween 1652 and 1684'" and Virginia's system of rent transactions (involving the exchange of a tobacco warehouses with fully backed present good for a present good) not only by warehouse receipts circulating as money paying interest on some bills of credit but also substitutes. THE MONETARY HISTORY OF AMERICA TO 1789: A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 375 Great Britain also had an impact on its col­ ed, but the Bank of North America lost its na­ onies' monetary practices. Throughout the col­ tional charter and became a state chartered in­ onial period, Britain prohibited the export of stitution. National coinage legislation was English coins to the colonies and 'forbade the discussed, but nothing was enacted. Many of establishment of colonial mints. Too much, the states returned to the issue of bills of credit. however, has been made of these restrictions. Three states chartered banks. The ban on exports applied only to British coins, and not to specie, which could be freely II exported. Thus, British coins could be melted During the colonial period, monetary policy down and exported without hindrance. Also, was an important and controversial issue. The the restriction did not apply to foreign coins. debate was recorded in a rich pamphlet England looked askance at the colonies' literature.
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