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<p>[QUOTE="rooman9, post: 2225681, member: 73048"]When the Mormons (Real name The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) moved out to the Salt Lake Valley there was nothing there. Empty. Nada. Just a giant salt lake. So they had to build everything from the ground up. Including the economy. So just like the hard time tokens of the civil war and other periods they minted their own coins (at this time the Utah territory was only recently added to the US due to the Mexican-American war). Obviously they didn't make too many of these. A few decades after they arrived the Trans-Continental railroad went through bringing in new migrants and with them American money. And soon after that came Statehood <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rooman9, post: 2225681, member: 73048"]When the Mormons (Real name The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints) moved out to the Salt Lake Valley there was nothing there. Empty. Nada. Just a giant salt lake. So they had to build everything from the ground up. Including the economy. So just like the hard time tokens of the civil war and other periods they minted their own coins (at this time the Utah territory was only recently added to the US due to the Mexican-American war). Obviously they didn't make too many of these. A few decades after they arrived the Trans-Continental railroad went through bringing in new migrants and with them American money. And soon after that came Statehood :)[/QUOTE]
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