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• Legal tender -- Confederate States of America
• Legal tender -- United States
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• Tender, Legal

• The Legal Tender Cases of 1871: Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term, 1870, in the Cases of Knox vs. Lee. and Parker vs. Davis; With the Opinions of Justices Strong and Bradley; and the Dissenting Opinions of Justices Chase, Clifford, and Field; To Which are Added the Notes of Forty-Four Cases Quoted or Referred to in the Several Opinions Above Named (New York: Pub. at the office of the Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register, 1872), by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays (Boston: J. R. Osgood and Company, 1871), by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams, and Francis Amasa Walker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• "Cato" on Constitutional "Money" and Legal Tender (Charleston: Evans and Cogswell, 1862), by Thomas Jefferson Withers (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance & Currency, Addressed to the President of the Confederate States, by Duff Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Plea for the Constitution of the U.S. of America, Wounded in the House of Its Guardians (New York: Harper and Bros., 1886), by George Bancroft (page images at HathiTrust)

• Greenback Catechism: Important Questions Plainly and Honestly Answered: Just the Thing to Kill the Golden Calf (ca. 1877), by Mark M. Pomeroy (HTML at Yamaguchy)
• "Greenbacks": or, The Evils and the Remedy of Using "Promise to Pay to the Bearer on Demand" as a Measure of Value (New York: D. Thomas, 1864), by Observer (page images at MOA)
• A Resource of War: The Credit of the Government Made Immediately Available: History of the Legal Tender Paper Money Issued During the Great Rebellion, Being a Loan Without Interest and a National Currency (Buffalo: Express Printing Co., 1869), by E. G. Spaulding (page images at MOA)
• The Legal Tender Cases of 1871: Decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term, 1870, in the Cases of Knox vs. Lee. and Parker vs. Davis; With the Opinions of Justices Strong and Bradley; and the Dissenting Opinions of Justices Chase, Clifford, and Field; To Which are Added the Notes of Forty-Four Cases Quoted or Referred to in the Several Opinions Above Named (New York: Pub. at the office of the Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register, 1872), by United States Supreme Court (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Money Question: The Legal Tender Paper Monetary System of the United States (Grand Rapids, MI: W. W. Hart, 1876), by William A. Berkey (page images at MOA)
• A Critical Examination of Our Financial Policy During the Southern Rebellion, by Simon Newcomb (page images at MOA)

• The Greenback Dollar: Its History and Worth (Chicago: M. M. Pomeroy, 1877), by B. S. Heath (HTML at heritech.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The High Price of Bullion, by David Ricardo (text at McMaster)

• Currency Features for Visually Impaired People (1995), by National Research Council Committee on Currency Features Usable by the Visually Impaired (illustrated HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Counterfeit Deterrent Features for the Next-Generation Currency Design (1993), by National Research Council National Materials Advisory Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• A Discourse of Coin and Coinage, by Rice Vaughan (text at McMaster)
• Monetary Theory Before Adam Smith (Harvard Economic Studies v25; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923), by Arthur Eli Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Further Considerations Concerning Raising the Value of Money, by John Locke (text at McMaster)
• Short Observations on a Printed Paper, Entitled "For Encouraging the Coining Silver Money in England, and After For Keeping it Here", by John Locke (text at McMaster)

• A Discourse of Coin and Coinage, by Rice Vaughan (text at McMaster)
• An Essay on Money & Bullion, by T. Joplin (text at McMaster)
• An Essay on Money and Bullion (London: Printed for B. Lintot, 1718), by J. Jocelyn (PDF at McMaster)

• History of the Coinage of the Territories of the East India Company in the Indian Peninsula; and Catalogue of the Coins in the Madras Museum (Chennai: Printed by the Superintendent, Government Press, 1890), by Edgar Thurston, contrib. by Government Museum (Chennai, India) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Coinage of the Roman Republic, 280 to 91 B.C.E. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Library, ca. 2005), contrib. by Fernanda Perrone, T. Corey Brennan, and Gary D. Farney (page images at Rutgers)

• Debasement of The Silver Coinage Under the Emperor Nero (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1914), by T. Louis Comparette (multiple formats at Indiana)
• Aes Signatum (New York: American Numismatic Society, 1919), by T. Louis Comparette (multiple formats at Indiana)

• Illustrated History of the United States Mint (new revised edition, 71st thousand; Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1892), by G. G. Evans (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Illustrated History of the United States Mint (new revised edition, 91st thousand; Philadelphia: G. G. Evans, 1893), by G. G. Evans (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Bimetallism in the United States (fourth edition; New York: D. Appleton, 1898), by J. Laurence Laughlin (HTML at econlib.org)

• Silver Money (Cowles Foundation monograph #4; Bloomington, IN: Principia Press, 1939), by Dickson H. Leavens (PDF at Yale)

• Direct Credits for Everybody, by Alfred W. Lawson (HTML at lawsonomy.org)
• The Sterling Area, Sterling Accounts, and Sterling Balances (Dept. of State Publication 3914, Economic Cooperation Series 27; Washington: U.S. Department of State Office of Public Affairs, 1950), by United States Department of State Office of Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Private Enterprise Money: A Non-Political Money System (1944), by Edwin C. Riegel (HTML at newapproachtofreedom.info)
• Essays in Persuasion (1931), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Banking and Currency (London: Butterworth and Co., 1905), by Ernest Sykes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Geld und Gold: Ökonomische Theorie des Geldes (in German; Stuttgart and Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1916), by Robert Liefmann
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Monetary Theory Before Adam Smith (Harvard Economic Studies v25; Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923), by Arthur Eli Monroe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mr. Chilton's Amendments to the Bill of the Committee (1864), by Confederate States of America House of Representatives, contrib. by W. P. Chilton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• State of the Country: Speech of Hon. A. G. Brown, of Mississippi, In the Confederate Senate, December 24, 1863, by Albert Gallatin Brown (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• "Cato" on Constitutional "Money" and Legal Tender (Charleston: Evans and Cogswell, 1862), by Thomas Jefferson Withers (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Facts and Suggestions Relative to Finance & Currency, Addressed to the President of the Confederate States, by Duff Green (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Das Geldproblem in Mitteleuropa (in German; Jena: G. Fischer, 1925), by Elemér Hantos (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Fraudulent Standard: An Exposure of the Fraudulent Character of Our Monetary Standard, With Suggestions for the Establishment of an Invariable Unit of Value (London: P.S. King and Son, 1917), by Arthur Kitson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The High Price of Bullion, by David Ricardo (text at McMaster)
• An Inquiry Into the Currency Principle, by Thomas Tooke (HTML at McMaster)
• Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money, by John Law (text at MacMaster)
• Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation With Money (Glasgow: R. and A. Foulis, 1750), by John Law
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Bank Charter Act: Ought the Bank of England or the People of England to Receive the Profits of the National Circulation? (London: D. F. Oakey, 1857), by Jonathan Duncan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Paper Money, the Money of Civilization: An Issue by the State, and a Legal Tender in Payment of Taxes (London: Provost and co., 1877), by James Harvey (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Three Letters on the Price of Gold: Contributed to the Morning Chronicle (London) in August-November, 1809 (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1903), by David Ricardo (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Means to Prosperity (1933), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sterling Area, Sterling Accounts, and Sterling Balances (Dept. of State Publication 3914, Economic Cooperation Series 27; Washington: U.S. Department of State Office of Public Affairs, 1950), by United States Department of State Office of Public Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essays in Persuasion (1931), by John Maynard Keynes (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.