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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 7853336, member: 12789&quot;]The colonists didn&#039;t like either the Rosa Americana or the Hibernia pieces - some colonies such as Massachusetts-Bay and New Jersey flat out banned the coinage in their colonies.&nbsp; Massachusetts-Bay issued small denomination paper coins in an effort to prohibit these pieces from circulating.</p><p><br /></p><p>Money - the shortage of, the short-changing by the British, and the illegal issuance of - was a major but rather not well known behind the scenes cause of the American Revolution.&nbsp; What little money the Crown did authorise for the colonies was of inferior quality.&nbsp; And the Crown quite frankly didn&#039;t provide much even for the British Isles.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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