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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 4531693, member: 4910&quot;]Ulysses S. Grant and $50 slugs</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a numismatic tidbit which did not make it into the series:</p><p><br /></p><p>From <i>The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant</i> published by Mark Twain in 1885:</p><p><br /></p><p>Oregon, 1852:</p><p><br /></p><p>Before the advent of the American, the medium of exchange between the Indian and the white man was pelts. Afterward it was silver coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>If an Indian received in the sale of a horse a fifty dollar gold piece, not an infrequent occurrence, the first thing he did was to exchange it for American half dollars. These he could count.</p><p><br /></p><p>He would then commence his purchases, paying for each article separately, as he got it. He would not trust any one to add up the bill and pay it all at once.</p><p><br /></p><p>At that day fifty dollar gold pieces, not the issue of the government, were common on the Pacific coast. They were called slugs.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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