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Learning Resource: Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy

2006

This illustrated booklet and accompanying classroom lesson tells readers about Benjamin Franklin’s role in the debate about devising a system of paper money in the British colonies that would become the United States, and about Franklin's monetary philosophy.

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2006

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Learning Resource: Benjamin Franklin and the Birth of a Paper Money Economy. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, 2006, https://fraser.stlouisfed.org/title/5959, accessed on June 15, 2025.