University of Virginia Library

This pamphlet was originally published in Boston in March of 1721. The identity of the author remains unknown. It was reprinted by Andrew McFarland Davis in Colonial Currency Reprints, 1682-1751, Boston: The Prince Society, 1911, volume II, pp. 304-32. The author is, as the title suggests, a hard money advocate. The author's temperate discussion and conscientious recitation of the history of the Massachusetts currency make this pamphlet especially useful.