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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 2664127, member: 38849&quot;]In the early stages of the Civil War, President Lincoln faced a LOT of opposition and skepticism for Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase&#039;s plan to issue paper money (our first Federal paper money, by the way) to support the war effort, issues known as Greenbacks.</p><p><br /></p><p>Read this and become a little <i>wiser</i> about paper money:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_(1860s_money)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_(1860s_money)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenback_(1860s_money)</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Prior to the Civil War, ALL &quot;currency&quot; had been gold or silver, except cents and half cents.&nbsp; No wonder citizens were upset.</p><p><br /></p><p>======</p><p>My dad, in the Army 1924 to 1947, remembered occasionally getting paid in gold in the late 1920s.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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