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Well Calculated And Intended To Deceive: Counterfeiting And Policing Along The Ohio And Mississippi Rivers During The Mid-Nineteenth Century, Joseph Carlos Marin

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During the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States lacked a national currency and individual states chartered banks that issued much needed and sought after paper currency into their local economies. Counterfeiters, men and women who created and passed fake currency, exploited the bewildering array of paper money and the chaotic financial world of the nineteenth century United States to obtain goods through illegitimate means. Historians have already explored the presence of counterfeiting in the colonial United States and in the New England States, including its existence along the nation’s border with Canada during the nineteenth century. This …