The Currency Act of 1870 (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 252, 16 Stat. 251, enacted July 12, 1870) maintained greenbacks issued during the American Civil...

The Currency Act or Paper Bills of Credit Act is one of several Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain that regulated paper money issued by the colonies...

colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries. The Coinage Act of 1792 introduced the U.S. dollar at par...

in gold coin only, paper currency the Act specified. The Act formalized the American gold standard that the Coinage Act of 1873, which demonetized silver...

States currency, the Federal Reserve Note. The Federal Reserve Act created a national currency and a monetary system that could respond effectively to the...

of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities and established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of the...

Fiat money is a type of currency that is not backed by a precious metal, such as gold or silver. It is typically designated by the issuing government...

stock exchange to use a clearing system, began using a clearing system in 1870, but the much larger New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) still had no clearing...

a list of Continental currency banknotes, which were printed from 1775 through 1779. Banknotes of the United States dollar Continental Currency dollar...

purchased the limited amount of silver each month. This act helped restore bimetallism with gold and silver both supporting the currency. However, gold remained...

Reserve Bank of India. The Reserve Bank manages currency in India and derives its role in currency management based on the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934....

Chernow, the three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Ulysses S. Grant, the eighteenth President of the United States, and premiered on May 25, 2020 on...

survival rates. The office of Comptroller of the Currency was created to supervise these banks. To create a uniform national currency. To achieve this, all...

Coinage Act of 1873 or Mint Act of 1873 was a general revision of laws relating to the Mint of the United States. By ending the right of holders of silver...

"authorizing the currency of foreign gold or silver coins". Specific coins would be exchanged at the Treasury and re-coined. The act is divided into seven...

The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the American Civil War fought on April 6–7, 1862. The fighting...

National Bank Notes were United States currency banknotes issued by National Banks chartered by the United States Government. The notes were usually backed...

business strike coin minted by the United States Mint under the Coinage Act of 1792, with production beginning on or about July 1792. However, others consider...

manufacturing coins and currency. The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic...

led to the halting of the production of United States Notes). They switched to small size in 1929 and are the only type of currency in circulation today...

Legal Tender Act, which authorized them as a form of fiat currency. During the early 1860s the so-called second obligation on the reverse of the notes stated:...

of any of the proposals. The three-cent piece was confirmed as fully legal tender by the Coinage Act of 1965, which proclaimed all coin and currency of...

coinage and currency production. Signatures of both officials appear on all Federal Reserve notes. The department was established by an Act of Congress in...

Coins of the United States dollar - aside from those of the earlier Continental currency - were first minted in 1792. New coins have been produced annually...

Act of 1792 on April 2, 1792, the coin was produced in the United States from 1793 to 1857. The half-cent piece was made of 100% copper and half of a...

Government of Ceylon passed the Prevention of the Avoidance of Income Tax Act on 26 October 1970, demonetized all currency notes of the denominations of Rupees...

treasure, such as currency or precious items are kept. These can be state or royal property, church treasure or in private ownership. The head of a treasury...

first half of the nineteenth century, U.S. money was circulated in both metallic and paper currency. As established by the Coinage Act of 1792, silver...

State of New York in Andrew Cuomo v. Clearing House Association, LLC to determine whether the U.S. Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)...

is a monetary arrangement where banks are free to issue their own paper currency (banknotes) while also being subject to no special regulations beyond those...