If you want to see private currency is use today, check out Ithaca Time Dollars (20 years in use) and Traverse City Bay Bucks. (I worked on that.) Many others exist.

Check out the Local Currencies tab at the Schumacher Institute
http://centerforneweconomics.org/

They have a directory of active local currencies:
http://centerforneweconomics.org/content...

The federal government came down on Bernard von Nothaus over COINS - a technicality in the law, and of course his politics, and the chance to put tens of millions of dollars in hard currency into the US Treasury. But you can still issue your own coin-like TOKENS, good for $5 or good for a cocktail or whatever. And tons and tons of one-ounce patriotic silver bars and silver rounds have been made since 1972 with complete impunity.

Just sayin'... Private money exists.

I was just curious what they might be. imagine without legal tender laws today the interesting currencies. Where I live, the founder of a bank encourages citizens to buy silver coins. He makes them readily available at low mark up. it's a treat to hit the supermarket in the "big town" and buy some silver. It chinks in your purse as you stroll.

The biography was an article. I might have said that I have enough material to start a book, but books are not what I do. My wife often suggests that we write fiction. It is not impossible, but just not what I do: I write non-fiction. But thanks and I appreciate the nod.

I do have some and I can put together a presentation, but the notes of the period spoke to different aspects of our culture. We took freedom of the press for granted by then, I suppose. Our nation had different problems entirely. You can find the same farm scenes with White people in the North and slaves in the South.