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The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2008

FARLEY GRUBB
FARLEY GRUBB*
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Professor, Economics Department, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; and Research Associate, NBER. E-mail: grubbf@lerner.udel.edu. Web-page: http://myprofile.cos.com/grubbf16.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , March 2008 , pp. 283 - 291
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