The History of the Dollar

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Though the United States dollar was officially adopted in 1785, paper currency didn't fully enter circulation until the Civil War. The current appearance of modern US bills developed only after a long period of economic development based on commodities and coinage. The earliest form of currency used on the North American continent includes Native American beads and coins minted in Europe. Given the choice, which form of currency would you want to revisit? Does the barter-based wampum appeal to your sensibilities, or perhaps a gold and silver system that would literally weigh you down?
#USCurrency #USdollar #weirdhistory

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  • @mts4611
    @mts4611 Жыл бұрын

    Although I was familiar with the history of the dollar, I KNEW this would be well worth the listen. No one's delivery and mix of sarcasm is a match to this dude's lol. I love it. On another note, that was actually a lot of information put into 12 mins, which proves people can EASILY give pertinent informational detail in a video without dragging it out unnecessarily.

  • @Luci-rv1hl

    @Luci-rv1hl

    Жыл бұрын

    Have you heard of Huggbees?

  • @anidiquaojala1804

    @anidiquaojala1804

    Жыл бұрын

    💯❣

  • @andrealuisecandido1154

    @andrealuisecandido1154

    Жыл бұрын

    we have € Euro no $ US Dollar no £ briTish pound no ¥ japanese yen ...?

  • @bjornolson6527

    @bjornolson6527

    Жыл бұрын

    “Show Me the Money!!”

  • @vonbarnes2700
    @vonbarnes2700 Жыл бұрын

    The American government has been making things complicated since the beginning of are country establishment " best quote ever

  • @kennethobrien6537

    @kennethobrien6537

    Жыл бұрын

    Our*

  • @TheAnthonyMarlowe

    @TheAnthonyMarlowe

    Жыл бұрын

    Can’t even spell our.

  • @simpleman5688

    @simpleman5688

    Жыл бұрын

    Numbskull

  • @SKa-tt9nm

    @SKa-tt9nm

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m sure you would have done much better than the founding fathers.

  • @FendiYT

    @FendiYT

    11 ай бұрын

    @@SKa-tt9nmstop worshipling ppl u never met like they arent made equal to you

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Жыл бұрын

    And just the think the Secret Service started out not to protect the president and his family but to go after counterfeiters.

  • @quanbrooklynkid7776

    @quanbrooklynkid7776

    Жыл бұрын

    yea

  • @sarahelaine8
    @sarahelaine8 Жыл бұрын

    I've been wanting you to do the history of the $2 bill, would love to see that! New series perhaps????🤔

  • @svt80221

    @svt80221

    Жыл бұрын

    well you see, when a mommy $1 bill and a daddy $1 bill fall in love...

  • @Leash23

    @Leash23

    Жыл бұрын

    What about a $3 bill?

  • @whiterabbit-wo7hw

    @whiterabbit-wo7hw

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Leash23 Mommy and Daddy 1 dollar bill had triplets.

  • @mandiemoore3272

    @mandiemoore3272

    Жыл бұрын

    Right it's just silly my husband brought one home for me the other day and I have it saved in my on my bedroom mirror and I have no idea why I saved $2 bills but I do and I think it's pretty common

  • @mandiemoore3272

    @mandiemoore3272

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@svt80221 SHUT UP!!!! You just made me burst out laughing.

  • @SoutheastCoinsandCurrency
    @SoutheastCoinsandCurrency Жыл бұрын

    The reason $5 bills don’t have Lincoln’s watermark is because people used to bleach the bill leaving just the paper, and printed $50 bills on the same paper, and cashiers could not tell the difference between Lincoln and grants watermark for some reason, so in 2006 they changed the design from Lincoln’s watermark to a big “5”

  • @thomasleemullins4372

    @thomasleemullins4372

    11 ай бұрын

    I thought it was the one dollar bill without the watermark?

  • @susanrobinson910
    @susanrobinson910 Жыл бұрын

    Ahh, Weird History strikes again! This channel is always answering the questions I had no idea I had! 😊

  • @AUstinnesc
    @AUstinnesc11 ай бұрын

    Insightful video. I just want to know best how people split their pay, how much of it goes into savings, spendings or investments. I'm 27, and earn nothing less $150k per year, but nothing to show for it yet.

  • @sherryie2

    @sherryie2

    11 ай бұрын

    When people have money, they spend it. And some people spend more money when they have more of it. If you want to improve your financial management, you should consult with a financial advisor.

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    @corrySledd

    11 ай бұрын

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    @McElvinn

    11 ай бұрын

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    @corrySledd

    11 ай бұрын

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    @McElvinn

    11 ай бұрын

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  • @dougadams9419
    @dougadams9419 Жыл бұрын

    Also, Spanish Pieces of Eight were valid currency during the era of the Pirates. "American colonists would use the Spanish dollar alongside British currency, as it was against the law for them to create their own money and coins from England were not plentiful. It took eight reales, another Spanish currency, to make up one Spanish dollar. Thus it was known as pieces of eight. American colonists would sometimes cut the coins into 8 pieces like a pie in order to make change since smaller coins were often scarce."

  • @Shinzon23
    @Shinzon23 Жыл бұрын

    Fun additional fact; Jachimsthalers were minted in the town called Joachimsthal, which had a long history of silver mining, and dumping the then worthless rock that was mixed up with the silver ore in tailings dumps. They called this worthless rock "pitchblende",essentially "lying/hard luck rock", which if you know your nuclear history, is what uranium and ultimately plutonium is refined out of. Another fun fact is Joachimsthal has a spa that has dissolved radiation particles in it built during the Radon Craze era that still exists (its safe, amount of Rads is less than you get taking a high altitude plane ride), and who in a very interesting coincidence has on its guest signature one for "Robert Oppenheimer" from the 20's... So the "Father of the Bomb" visited the town were Marie Curie first discovered Radon in the Pitchblende piles as a child... History is full of odd coincidences ain't it

  • @ATSFVentaSpurNscaler
    @ATSFVentaSpurNscaler Жыл бұрын

    Until the late 1960s or early 1970s, the original U.S. dollar sign had 2 straight vertical slashes "||" over the "S" instead of the simplified solitary vertical slash "|" that we see today in "$". Some people have suggested that this original, double-slashed dollar sign came from overlaying a "U" atop the "S" as an abbreviation for United States, with the lowest curved portion of the "U" eventually being dropped from usage to leave only 2 vertical slashes across the "S". Over time both vertical slashes evolved into today’s single slash.

  • @Bartolo.Gonzalez

    @Bartolo.Gonzalez

    Жыл бұрын

    The Spanish eight or dollar Real was the first global currency, and in fact, it has that S || also. The first settlers came to use it many.

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    @suemarshall6185

    Жыл бұрын

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    @vntr4480

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @yoyoglock4
    @yoyoglock4 Жыл бұрын

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  • @kbrock9146
    @kbrock9146 Жыл бұрын

    Just sitting here remembering the first year of this channel and seeing where it is now, makes me so happy.

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    @Luv_U_Maddie Жыл бұрын

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    @valentinmatei7827 Жыл бұрын

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    @gaijacqueline4935

    Жыл бұрын

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    @youngstan5444

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @Berry.A554

    @Berry.A554

    Жыл бұрын

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    @gaijacqueline4935

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @br_andn

    @br_andn

    Жыл бұрын

    Bot

  • @nazfan01
    @nazfan01 Жыл бұрын

    Ijust so happened to buy a huge lot of various coins at an estate auction about 5 years ago. When I got home and went through the coins it turned out I got hold of several very rare 1700s Colonial coins I was surprised that no one noticed them before putting them up for auction. I still have them to this day!

  • @spookyskeptic4978

    @spookyskeptic4978

    Жыл бұрын

    You'd be surprised how little attention people pay to the change in their pocket. I used to do the accounting at a small grocery. The cashiers would set aside the "weird" coins or anything they couldn't identify. I swooped in and collected them every morning. I have a pretty cool collection. I don't think I'm paying for anyone's college, but there's some absolutely neat and bonkers stuff just sitting in tills or center consoles or old coats. And that fascinates me.

  • @neoasura

    @neoasura

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spookyskeptic4978 In the 80s my dad was a coin collector, and had this book showing how valuable coins were. As a kid I used to take any change I had and look through that book, and see if it has any of the symbols, letters, wheat back, etc. It was a fun hobby before the internet.

  • @nazfan01

    @nazfan01

    Жыл бұрын

    @@spookyskeptic4978 - My son is special needs and has worked at a grocery store for 10 years now. Sometimes customers would give him tips but what they were really doing was giving my son "money they had no idea about" (in other words they figured he didnt know any better) - Most the time they were tipping him collectible coins. My favorite is the CoinStar machine. Ive noticed that CoinStar seems to reject silver coins quite a bit .... mostly Roosevelt dimes. I have tons of those alone. what amazes me is people just brring in coffee cans full of coins and dump them not knowing what they are dumping in. There were many time that Morgan silver dollars are just sitting there untouched. Many standing Liberty quarters. What I do miss out on the manager would show me a foam coffee cup full off coins he figured were worthless. He even gave me quarters that are still in circulation... 1976 Bicentennial quarters. There have been a few times that some silver Canadian coins would show up. Amazingly, one 19 30s Canadian silver was there and it turned out to be appraised at $500 because uit was a rare piece. So yes, I know what you are saying.

  • @Usafpararescue96

    @Usafpararescue96

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nazfan01 bicentennial coins are rare?

  • @nazfan01

    @nazfan01

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Usafpararescue96 - No! That was my point, the manager of the store thinks they are either foreign coins or does not realize these coins are still in circulation. Either way, I take what ever he gives me

  • @gordygohard
    @gordygohard Жыл бұрын

    Dollar sign may have come from spanish currency depicting a scroll in the shape of an "S" and pillars on the one side of each coin. Due to spanish coin's abundance from new world gold and silver it became a common symbol.

  • @chromicapop4595

    @chromicapop4595

    Жыл бұрын

    Also at one point spanish empire extended to new world😮

  • @alicebas377

    @alicebas377

    Жыл бұрын

    i was taught that the $ came from people writing US dollar and over time the U and S were written on top of each other and then the bottom of the U was dropped....sign makers started to use only one line through the S to what we see today....i still use two lines when ever i write it!

  • @Unknowngfyjoh

    @Unknowngfyjoh

    Жыл бұрын

    It came from symbol from the mint of Potosi, which is where the Spanish minted most of their silver coins. I have been there and know this for a fact. I went to the mint museum they have there.

  • @andrealuisecandido1154

    @andrealuisecandido1154

    Жыл бұрын

    no idea whaT you speak of once again we in WEST EuropE have only € Euro no $ Dollar

  • @andrealuisecandido1154

    @andrealuisecandido1154

    Жыл бұрын

    ThaT has meaning we have only The Money of The Europe Union HeadquaTer France + Germany ITaLy

  • @TacoBellMukbangRequested
    @TacoBellMukbangRequested Жыл бұрын

    I'd buy that for a dollar!

  • @MarkMeadows90

    @MarkMeadows90

    Жыл бұрын

    Hello Baco Tell lol

  • @Selinkak
    @Selinkak Жыл бұрын

    I don't know how to go about researching this but now I really want to know if Massachusetts ever explicitly unrecognized wampum as acceptable currency. In fact now I wonder if any state has old currencies technically still legal currency simply cuz there isn't a law that actually unrecognized it written anywhere

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 Жыл бұрын

    Great story.! Never really thought about this. Thanks for doing this.

  • @IanSolano
    @IanSolano Жыл бұрын

    Really enjoyed the history of the dollar. How about covering British currency?

  • @chromicapop4595

    @chromicapop4595

    Жыл бұрын

    Or the Yen😮

  • @NASCARFAN93100

    @NASCARFAN93100

    Жыл бұрын

    They should cover The History of The Euro

  • @tammygant4216

    @tammygant4216

    Жыл бұрын

    or all money! What a fun idea for a series.

  • @NASCARFAN93100

    @NASCARFAN93100

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tammygant4216 Ya know I agree

  • @Jacobthejewela
    @Jacobthejewela Жыл бұрын

    This channel reminds me of a show I used to watch on the history channel in the early 2000s called The Most with Mike Rowe. The topics and tone of this show are both similar to that one.

  • @marcoperdomo283
    @marcoperdomo283 Жыл бұрын

    I really love your sarcastic humor, the history part it's just a bonus to me.

  • @MeaningMatters355
    @MeaningMatters355 Жыл бұрын

    I worked for a money collecting contractor that picked up cash from businesses in those armored trucks. The amount of stuff I learned about money is insane. For instance, those fraud pens only detect for the paper but people bleach bills and print over them so they get through. Always inspect their other details! Another antifraud measure is that the shirts on the people on the bill are textured. So if you run your nail over it, it makes a scratching sound. Unfit money is sorted to be sent out to be destroyed and counterfeits are tracked based on the numbers all over the bill. Super interesting.

  • @daredevil6145
    @daredevil6145 Жыл бұрын

    I was just looking about Dollor History today, out of nowhere and you dropped the video *Here Take it*

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Жыл бұрын

    Man, this is something. A fascinating and interesting topic. I like this.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Жыл бұрын

    I did not know that Spanish currency was so popular at that time. That Eye of Providence has always fascinated me. Fantastic video and narration! A+ video, my mother even watched it with me.

  • @JP-en7cc

    @JP-en7cc

    Жыл бұрын

    afaik, it was the first world currency for international trade. Similar to what the US dollar is nowadays. Popularly known as the piece of eight

  • @btetschner

    @btetschner

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JP-en7cc Very interesting, thanks for the info.

  • @nomecreona3829

    @nomecreona3829

    Жыл бұрын

    The Spanish legacy in the United States is enormous, but unfortunately it has been erased from history books in the States and in Anglo-Saxon world. The history of the United States is largely written in Spanish.

  • @btetschner

    @btetschner

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nomecreona3829 It's unfortunate that there aren't more cultural things like Spanish food, Spanish restaurants, etc. There just isn't a very prominent Spanish prescence in the U.S. right now, even though there was long ago.

  • @manuelrodriguez2637

    @manuelrodriguez2637

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@Nomecreona Yep written in Spanish & still not erased... San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, all in Califonia, next to Arizona, nearby Nevada, Colorado & Montana... Only Texas 😠 should be Tejas!... but hey San Antonio still there 😊

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks for this! 💸 #WeirdHistory #USCurrency #USDollar #HistoryOfTheDollar

  • @AKadir8
    @AKadir8 Жыл бұрын

    I'm surprised you didn't mention how Nixon in 1972 got the dollar out of the gold-based standard to prevent it's value decreasing against other currencies, thus, creating the base of the economical crisis and inflation we suffer today.

  • @zydian_

    @zydian_

    Жыл бұрын

    Link a referens please. Not bcs I dont believe you but id like to read up on it.

  • @soybasedjeremy3653

    @soybasedjeremy3653

    Жыл бұрын

    Links?

  • @soybasedjeremy3653

    @soybasedjeremy3653

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zack3g Yes cause taking from the people works... Said nobody ever.

  • @soybasedjeremy3653

    @soybasedjeremy3653

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zack3g Ok Commie

  • @rumbleisbetter

    @rumbleisbetter

    Жыл бұрын

    @@soybasedjeremy3653 just Google "gold standard u.s. dollar" people shouldn't have to spoonfeed you info, you imbecile

  • @nobodyatall7438
    @nobodyatall7438 Жыл бұрын

    Great Documentary and narration.

  • @josiebobcat
    @josiebobcat Жыл бұрын

    I would love to see a video about company scrip. Seems like a weird thing in history. thank you for these videos. I love history and I love the jokes.

  • @stevenkobb156
    @stevenkobb156 Жыл бұрын

    Fun video. FYI, there is no "American eagle." That is a bald eagle. 🦅

  • @robswystun2766

    @robswystun2766

    Жыл бұрын

    Also a spread eagle.

  • @neoasura

    @neoasura

    Жыл бұрын

    My high school fashion wardrobe begs to differ.

  • @cadillacdeville5828
    @cadillacdeville5828 Жыл бұрын

    I hope he's a professor or something that super engaging . He's awesome with the narrations

  • @thomasleemullins4372
    @thomasleemullins437211 ай бұрын

    I think that is both fascinating and informative.

  • @ahotdj07
    @ahotdj07 Жыл бұрын

    That is pretty interesting. I learned a lot that I didn't know about our currency.

  • @mildredlackey1938
    @mildredlackey1938 Жыл бұрын

    Well this about the dollar bill was very interesting , thanks

  • @theodoregarcia8830
    @theodoregarcia8830 Жыл бұрын

    Excellent video maestro

  • @janayarroyo22
    @janayarroyo22 Жыл бұрын

    This was so WEIRDLY AMAZING history ☺️

  • @Derek-no8fu
    @Derek-no8fu Жыл бұрын

    Them old bills look beautiful. We should bring back that style.

  • @proppin
    @proppin Жыл бұрын

    Paper money used to be quite large. They were nearly 7 1/2 inches long and called "horseblankets" for their size. In the late 1920's they were shrunk to the size people know today!

  • @scottkrater2131

    @scottkrater2131

    Жыл бұрын

    In Europe, different denominations have different sizes, handy if you're blind, you can't tell the difference between a 1 and 100 in US currency if you're blind.

  • @quanbrooklynkid7776

    @quanbrooklynkid7776

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scottkrater2131 damn

  • @Yangborder

    @Yangborder

    Жыл бұрын

    Because you could buy a fucking house with one dollar

  • @3frenchhens818
    @3frenchhens818 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot to explain "bits" -- like in "two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar, all for our team stand up and holler" and the door knock "shave and a haircut two bits." If I remember right -- and anybody out there help me if I'm wrong -- the bit is left over from the Spanish dollar that had eight bits/parts. In USA money, 2 bits = 25 cents, 4 bits = 50 cents, 6 bits = 75 cents, 8 bits = a dollar. A lot of people still say bits for prices and for insults: "Why, you two-bit crook, I oughta punch your lights out."

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Жыл бұрын

    Please do more Currency history

  • @Ravengerson3148
    @Ravengerson3148 Жыл бұрын

    I really like this dollar video it’s so packed with info. One thing though I’m pretty sure the in God we trust was added all over the place by Macarthy ( sorry not sure of spelling) during his big Red Scare.

  • @naturalnashuan

    @naturalnashuan

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes, it had nothing to do with God, I hope that was a joke in the video. America added "In God We Trust" to money as a lame slap against communism. That's why "under God" is in the Pledge of Allegiance. As a nonreligious person I think it is time for it to go.

  • @JohnnyAngel8
    @JohnnyAngel8 Жыл бұрын

    Good one! (No pun intended.) Now make a video about all the money printing and coin striking errors. Please?

  • @seffishestopal5950
    @seffishestopal5950 Жыл бұрын

    You learn something new every day

  • @naturalnashuan

    @naturalnashuan

    11 ай бұрын

    I agree! Yesterday I learned that an interesting discovery was made about frogs. Since they have soft bodies they get thorns and splinters and stuff like that imbedded in them. The cool part: Some species have urine bladders that have cells that grow around the foreign object. That pulls the object into the bladder and they can pee out the objects!

  • @kashagroob8417
    @kashagroob8417 Жыл бұрын

    I actually have one of those bags of shredded money mentioned at the end. I thought it was so cool when I was little.

  • @TheBlindPhotographer
    @TheBlindPhotographer Жыл бұрын

    YAY! Weird History 😍

  • @jeremyblakeney1518
    @jeremyblakeney1518 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, but you left out the spider in the corner of the 1 dollar bill lol I've always wondered why they put that on there

  • @historyfunnfacts9204
    @historyfunnfacts9204 Жыл бұрын

    really good quality wish I could make it :P

  • @potatomatop9326
    @potatomatop9326 Жыл бұрын

    Everytime i get a dollar it instantly becomes history.

  • @bobross8786

    @bobross8786

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm well ahead of you on that 🤣

  • @Backroad_Junkie
    @Backroad_Junkie Жыл бұрын

    After a lot of counterfeits were being made with a color copier, preventative measures were put into scanners and copiers (and printers) that won't let you duplicate money. You can still do if if you find an old scanner, but modern scanners will shut down...

  • @SilverWealth_Draper_Mint
    @SilverWealth_Draper_Mint Жыл бұрын

    Old Silver Bar Market is in its infancy and starting to pop

  • @darcicali7693
    @darcicali7693 Жыл бұрын

    👍👍👍 Amazing 👏👏👏👏

  • @sierrajohnson717
    @sierrajohnson717 Жыл бұрын

    if you damage money, you can look up proper routes to have it replaced if you can salvage most of the physical bill. a bank can replace it if theres enough left of the bill, and if its questionable you can mail it/them away (the address is online) and they can deem if its replaceable or a total loss. REALLY hoping that lady on tiktok whose dog ate her hundreds knew this and she didnt just throw them out

  • @naturalnashuan

    @naturalnashuan

    11 ай бұрын

    I found money that blew out onto the sidewalk through a hospital's ventilation fan. I picked the pieces out of shrubbery and taped the pieces back together. 3 out of the 4 five dollar bills were accepted at a bank, but I was happy with my 15 dollars.😊

  • @lefish5277
    @lefish5277 Жыл бұрын

    I love this narrator so much lmao

  • @J.A.Smith2397
    @J.A.Smith2397 Жыл бұрын

    The finger print on his color was new to me!

  • @julianneremley4430
    @julianneremley443011 ай бұрын

    Interesting

  • @hittemwiddakae434
    @hittemwiddakae434 Жыл бұрын

    Anyone know the track that starts at 5:34 ? Sounds like a film score track but I need to know lol very beautiful piece.

  • @mandiemoore3272
    @mandiemoore3272 Жыл бұрын

    I would really like to see a topic on comparison of money values around the world and how dollars or whatever they are in in different countries how they lose their value and about how the gold in the mint is actually what we owe not the paper dollar bill as Citizens

  • @ididanoopsie9321
    @ididanoopsie9321 Жыл бұрын

    Counterfeiting money is incredibly difficult and expensive, which is why the government assumes no one would counterfeit one dollar bills since the payoff would not be worth it

  • @ukeyaoitrash2618
    @ukeyaoitrash2618 Жыл бұрын

    Not first but quick~ and I just had two beer!

  • @pollypeterson3994
    @pollypeterson3994 Жыл бұрын

    I would be interested in research into how the broadway musical South Pacific was written and developed after WW2

  • @Amen.ahmed1
    @Amen.ahmed1 Жыл бұрын

    Topic everybody like to hear all the time. money

  • @gravewaxxsupercoven1980
    @gravewaxxsupercoven1980 Жыл бұрын

    You almost completely missed the mark when explaining the symbolism on the one dollar bill. You could do an entire video on it.

  • @emmamerritt6730
    @emmamerritt6730 Жыл бұрын

    The early dollar sign is a U and S overlapping. To show it is US currency. Over time the bend at the bottom has gone away to just one or two lines through the S.

  • @Unknowngfyjoh

    @Unknowngfyjoh

    Жыл бұрын

    False. The dollar sign $ comes from the symbol of the mint of Potosi. The largest silver mine in the world and where most Spanish silver coins were minted.

  • @BangFarang1

    @BangFarang1

    Жыл бұрын

    If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

  • @Unknowngfyjoh

    @Unknowngfyjoh

    Жыл бұрын

    @@BangFarang1 false. The $ comes from the stamp of the mint of Potosi, the largest mint in the Spanish Empire.

  • @Sh00terMcGavinXL
    @Sh00terMcGavinXL Жыл бұрын

    I was always taught that dollar sign came from the scroll & pillars on the Spanish coins

  • @marcorock101
    @marcorock101 Жыл бұрын

    That crypto jab 😂😂😂

  • @aquasomethingyouknowwhatever
    @aquasomethingyouknowwhatever Жыл бұрын

    i visited the dallas federal reserve on a class field trip in elementary school, it was rlly cool!! they gave each of us little bags of shredded money that said it would’ve been worth $300 and it’s just super cool. i probably still have it somewhere :-)

  • @asielmilian38

    @asielmilian38

    Жыл бұрын

    That sounds cool.

  • @glennso47

    @glennso47

    Жыл бұрын

    I remember one time I was in my bank and they had a bunch of Free money in a plastic bag. It was shredded money.

  • @glennso47

    @glennso47

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s now Out of one. Many.

  • @ryanTDG
    @ryanTDG Жыл бұрын

    Major sticking points in both the revolutionary war and civil war were the issuing and financing of currency.

  • @internetkilledthevideostar
    @internetkilledthevideostar Жыл бұрын

    Surprised you didn’t talk about the tiny owl, perched on the dollar bill.

  • @Seeker0628
    @Seeker0628 Жыл бұрын

    Look, the Narrator is definitely an Universal Treasure. He must be protected at all costs!

  • @zippomustang05
    @zippomustang05 Жыл бұрын

    I love how in our constitution it states "no state shall use anything besides gold and silver coin for payments of debt"

  • @BangFarang1

    @BangFarang1

    Жыл бұрын

    The states shall pay in gold and silver, not their citizens.

  • @jons.6216
    @jons.6216 Жыл бұрын

    Chase Bank not only steals names but lots of undeserved money from customers!

  • @jarodjohnson4357
    @jarodjohnson435711 ай бұрын

    I now invest in goldbacks, look into them! They have 5 denominations each with 24k fractional gold in the note and they can be exchanged for 🥇 coin on demand in any of the four states who are making them.

  • @tanithjohnson2802
    @tanithjohnson2802 Жыл бұрын

    Could you do a video on Australian money like how we came to have dollars. Australia did have British money when it was formed

  • @BangFarang1

    @BangFarang1

    Жыл бұрын

    Australia, New-Zealand, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Canada...

  • @manuelrodriguez2637

    @manuelrodriguez2637

    Жыл бұрын

    Think it comes from Spanish dollars? Wikipedia says they used them in New South Wales... they punched a hole in the middle to make them Australian 😂

  • @MechsTechNGames
    @MechsTechNGames Жыл бұрын

    I’d like to hear weird history’s take on bernie madoff’s ponzi scheme, or even about the person named for a ponzi scheme: Carlo Ponzi.

  • @feresmourali5783
    @feresmourali5783 Жыл бұрын

    Please make a video about Emma Goldman!

  • @samuelw.3992
    @samuelw.3992 Жыл бұрын

    The history of the inflation of the dollar should be next.

  • @thomasbarker6833
    @thomasbarker6833 Жыл бұрын

    The '$' is not the first symbol used, and was originally a 'S' transposed on top of 'U' and stood for a 'unit of silver'. In 1792 the 'Sherman Coinage Act' determined that the money of the United States would be the US Dollar; and would have an exact size and shape and be stamped; and consist of 380 and 4/16 pure gains of silver.

  • @thomasbarker6833

    @thomasbarker6833

    Жыл бұрын

    See a book called: 'PIECES OF NINE'

  • @bigwestreviews4933
    @bigwestreviews4933 Жыл бұрын

    Leaving a physical backing of the dollar was a mistake.

  • @rab52764
    @rab52764 Жыл бұрын

    The original dollar sign had 2 vertical lines, not just one. So I was always told that it was originally U and S printed on top of each other. Eventually the curve on the U was dropped making the 2 lines on the S for the dollar sign. The lines merged over time, resulting in the $ mark.

  • @midnightodellewest1999

    @midnightodellewest1999

    Жыл бұрын

    I was taught that as well.

  • @BangFarang1

    @BangFarang1

    Жыл бұрын

    If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

  • @feldgeist2637
    @feldgeist2637 Жыл бұрын

    the dutch variation would be Daalder "Daler" is the low german and danish version of Taler

  • @raphaeldouglas9361
    @raphaeldouglas9361 Жыл бұрын

    Successful people don't become that way overnight. What most people see at a glance-wealth, a great career, purpose-is the result of hard work and hustle over time.

  • @josyvargas8326

    @josyvargas8326

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah! I agree with you sir.If you want to be successful have the mindset of the rich, spend less and invest More. Don't give up your dreams.

  • @eduardomarquee551

    @eduardomarquee551

    Жыл бұрын

    @@josyvargas8326 People come here with the aim of chasing money more than knowledge and that will damage your progress, trust me. Chase knowledge first and I promise! The money will follow you just like it's following some of us now.

  • @marywills5744

    @marywills5744

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eduardomarquee551 People wants to do what the 99% does but wants to get results that are fit for the 1%, but it doesn't work that way

  • @evaluna8096

    @evaluna8096

    Жыл бұрын

    @@marywills5744 Investment is the quickest path to financial freedom, the rich stays rich by spending like the poor yet investing! While the poor stays poor by spending like the rich yet not investing.

  • @poltykelsey4890

    @poltykelsey4890

    Жыл бұрын

    @@evaluna8096 That's true.. But Talking of investment! Is there any one who knows what one can invest in and be successful because I really need to invest to avoid rat race during retirement. do you have knowledge about any?

  • @collectingonthecheap56353
    @collectingonthecheap56353 Жыл бұрын

    At 10:09 is a counterfeit $100. Notice that the watermark is of Alexander Hamilton, when it should be Franklin.

  • @DUCEDUCEVA
    @DUCEDUCEVA Жыл бұрын

    Can we try The History of GMO crops?

  • @cuculan1978
    @cuculan1978 Жыл бұрын

    What about the owl in the corner and Washington state building garden is shaped as a owl as well meaning please??

  • @RareKumiko
    @RareKumiko10 ай бұрын

    Kinda surprised he didn't talk about the tiny Owl nestled just to the left of the "1" on the top right of the 1 dollar bill.

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 Жыл бұрын

    "If you're trying to conquer the criminal underworld by printing counterfeit singles, the government apparently feels like you could use all the help you can get." -😀😄😆

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting video

  • @mitchell.9632
    @mitchell.96322 ай бұрын

    No mention on how the money supply when back into private hands with the bill passed in 1913? Or the First or Second bank when government used to be in control of the money supply.

  • @MeetThaNewDealer
    @MeetThaNewDealer Жыл бұрын

    Cash rules everything around me, CREAM get the money dolla-dolla bills yall.

  • @humblehummingbird2011
    @humblehummingbird2011 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting Info... Here's a question, if it's 25% Linen and 75% Cotton, why isn't it called Material Money? The One Dollar Bill really ought to be redesigned, it's weird, in all sense of the word.

  • @captainchaos0666
    @captainchaos0666 Жыл бұрын

    Best fact about the one dollar bill: You can make a mushroom out of George Washingtons head. As referenced in Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure.

  • @wretchedslippage3255
    @wretchedslippage3255 Жыл бұрын

    This was fuckin fascinating

  • @kmeccat
    @kmeccat Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, I'd like a job in that bill shredding dept. 😆 Somehow, I doubt a LOT of that money actually makes it into the shredder.

  • @J.M.Atchley
    @J.M.Atchley Жыл бұрын

    We were always taught that the dollar sign started as a U and a S written on top of each other. Slowly the bottom of the U was omitted making it just 2 vertical lines (which it was when I grew up in the early 70's). And through the computer age the two verical lines have changed to just one, and this is now changing to just tabs sticking up and down from the top and bottom of the S. Your theory of the P & S was never even a thought let alone a line of text in our text books.

  • @BangFarang1

    @BangFarang1

    Жыл бұрын

    If you look at the Spanish silver coin 1:53 you'll see clearly the two pillars of the strait of Gibraltar (Hercules Columns). The early Americans using those coins wrote Sll (S for Spanish and ll for the pillars) on prices tags and handwritten documents, and when one writes quickly the S and the ll became eventually melted.

  • @401k.ElPiovra
    @401k.ElPiovra Жыл бұрын

    I never thought about this but. Gilbert Stuart designed the dollar and I live in providence and Gilbert Stuart has a school in providence and is one of its historical figures. Interesting... conspiracy or coincidence lol

  • @epicproportionsmediaproduc6697
    @epicproportionsmediaproduc6697 Жыл бұрын

    You forgot to mention how they changed the color of the bills to reflect the colors used in the board game, Monopoly, as a way of mocking the public. Mono = one Poly = many E Pluribus Unem = "out of many, one"

  • @kennethweigand4600
    @kennethweigand4600 Жыл бұрын

    4:36 is an old picture of Copenhagen?? Hafnia Metropolis….Harbour, metropole. Why?

  • @SWLinPHX
    @SWLinPHX10 ай бұрын

    I understand why there are not as many security measures on the Washington one dollar bill, but why is the design still the old one with the small portrait and not enlarged like every other denomination was in the late 20th Century? It clashes with the rest, and since they have to destroy old singles anyway why not redesign it to match the others??

  • @Billyjoelovesu
    @Billyjoelovesu Жыл бұрын

    History of Fort Knox

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