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6352. PAPER MONEY, Depreciation.—
The first symptom of the depreciation of our
present paper money, was that of silver
dollars selling at six shillings, which had
before been worth but five shillings and nine
pence. The Assembly thereupon raised them
by law to six shillings.—
Notes on Virginia. Washington ed. viii, 410.
Ford ed., iii, 275.
(1782)
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