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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 40519, member: 25&quot;]<i>because on seeing these the South flooded the North with copies trying to destabilize the currency.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Bit of a historical mix-up there, there was no South when these circulated, just the 13 colonies. What is now the south belonged mostly to France till the US bought Louisiana and a whole lot more from the French in the Louisiana Purchase. Paid millions in real gold and silver for it,too.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the British had not been at war with the French at the time,it is quite likely they would have bought the Louisiana deal, and slavery would have been abolished at that time, leading to a very different North American history.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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