no no he cant have been young 100 years ago thats too soon, we all know why he collected foreign coins because the us didnt make coins when he started off
It also states they shall pay in money or bars. Money means they can pay in paper money. It doesn't mean they have to pay in gold or silver coin, and they would almost certainly decide that to do so would not be "practical or convenient". So you can get bars or paper.
It'd have to be Kentucky bourbon there's no such thing as bourbon made anywhere else in order to truly be considered bourbon it has to be made in or around bourbon county Kentucky otherwise its just whiskey