TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grubb,Farley
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued? 
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - April 2007; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - The U.S. Congress issued paper money called Continental Dollars to finance the American Revolution. The story of the Continental Dollar is familiar to all -- a lot were issued and hyper-inflation ensued. However, the details of this story are less well known. Scholars even disagree over how much was issued -- disagree by over 50 percent. Meaningful monetary analysis of the Continental Dollar cannot proceed given this confusion in the data. Evidence is gathered here to reconcile past estimates and establish the exact amount and time path of Continental Dollars emitted thereby overcoming the entropy that has crept into the historical record
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w13047
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w13047
ER  -