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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BUncirculated, post: 1497203, member: 29581&quot;]From what I understand this goes back to the Revolutionary War period. Up until we declared independence from Great Britain, the currency in use was the English pound. When we started making our own currency, or currency of the United States, that was the currency the founding fathers wanted to be legal and tender for use in commerce as well as paying debts, whether public or private as they didn&#039;t want foreign currency to have more buying power than our own.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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