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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug5353, post: 2084661, member: 73555&quot;]One further expansion of the cashbox/cash register subject.&nbsp; I forgot that up until 1857 (?), many foreign coins were legal tender in the United States.&nbsp; Also, at the start of the Civil War, there were over 25,000 kinds of paper money circulating in the U.S., including issues of the so-called &quot;wildcat banks,&quot; state banks, cities and towns, railroads, insurance companies, and mining firms.&nbsp; Few of these circulated more than ten miles from their point of issue.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an image of something related, early credit cards, which were metal disks with a machine-stamped number (but no name) and often a monogram of the Company that issued them:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa236/doug2222usa/T008EarlyCreditCards_zps59205ee3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The first is from Gimbel Brothers Department Store, a chain eventually located in New York.&nbsp; The second is from (John) Wanamaker&#039;s Department Store in Philadelphia, with a J. W. monogram at the top.&nbsp; The penny is for size comparison.</p><p><br /></p><p>A clerk copied down the details on a credit slip, after matching the number with the name signed by the buyer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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