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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gsalexan, post: 1571752, member: 24274&quot;]For currency (including some fractionals), Continental, National, American, and Columbian Bank Note were used. In 1878, the BEP was given reponsibility for printing all federal currency and fiscal securities, but in practice they were already doing most of it by the mid-1870s. The Bureau began calling in the printing plates from the private firms around this time and by 1877 nearly all the dies were in the BEP vault. The resulting loss of business was the primary reason for the consolidation of National, Continental and ABN in 1879.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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