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Money, Coins & Currency Posters & Prints
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social studies > money, coins, & currency < history of labor
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Posters depicting money, the tokens used for exchange, storage and measuring unit value, for classrooms and offices. Image include forms of currency - coins and banknotes (paper bills), the art of making money, minting coins.
Did you know that Sir Isaac Newton was the Warden of the Royal Mint?
• “If I had enough money, I would take busloads of people out to the fields and into the labor camps. Then they'd know how that fine salad got on their table.” ~ Roberto Acuna, farm worker
• “Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.” ~ Hannah Arendt
• “Being asked by a young nobleman, what was become of the gallantry and military spirit of the old English nobility, (Johnson) replied, "Why, my Lord, I'll tell you what is become of it; it is gone into the city to look for a fortune.” ~ James Boswell
• “In our researches on the likely economic apocalypse it's become clear what is the prime survival tool for hard times: friends. Good friends. Lots of them.” ~ Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Epilog (1974)
• “The challenge is to build a new economy and to do it at wartime speed before we miss so many of the nature's deadlines that the economic system begins to unravel.” ~ Lester Brown
• “For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.” ~ John Burroughs
• “It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.” ~ Samuel Butler
• “I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.” ~ Joseph Campbell
• “I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and ‘manage’ by base arts a husband or a father, — I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.” ~ Frances Power Cobbe
• “Business, that's easily defined; it's other people's money.” ~ Alexandre Dumas, père
• “Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ~ Epictetus
• “Make money your god and it will plague you like the devil.” ~ Henry Fielding
• “If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.” ~ Robert Graves
• “The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.” ~ John Heywood
• “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” ~ Victor Hugo
• “A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty.” ~ David Hume
• “In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “Homo economicus was surreptitiously taken as the emblem and analogue for all living beings. A mechanistic anthropomorphism has gained currency. Bacteria are imagined to mimic “economic” behavior and to engage in internecine competition for the scarce oxygen available in their environment. A cosmic struggle among ever more complex forms of life has become the anthropic foundational myth of the scientific age.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “The re-establishment of an ecological balance depends on the ability of society to counteract the progressive materialization of values. The ecological balance cannot be re-established unless we recognize again that only persons have ends and only persons can work towards them.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “The household has become the place where the consumption of wages takes place.” ~ Ivan Illich
• “I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.” ~ Amory Lovins
• “Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.” ~ Clifford Odets
• “If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.” ~ Dorothy Parker
• “If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
• “A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.” ~ John Ruskin
• “Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.” ~ Geroge Sand
• “Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.” ~ Geroge Sand
• “A great fortune is a great slavery.” ~ Seneca
• “We are corrupted by prosperity.” ~ Tacitus
• “America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
• “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.” ~ 1 Timothy 6:10, New International Version (©1984)
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A Close View of Denominations of American Paper Money
The law prohibits portraits of living persons from appearing on Government Securities. Therefore, the portraits on currency notes are of deceased persons whose places in history the American people know well. (US Treasury FAQs)
Washington – $1; Jefferson – $2; Lincoln – $5; Hamilton – $10; Jackson – $20; Grant – $50; Franklin – $100.
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A Colonial Six Dollar Bill of 1776, an American Fifty Dollar Bill of 1779
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After the Revolutionary War coins were the only sure method of payment. Paper money was only as valuable as the reliability and proximity of the bank that issued it.
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Benjamin Franklin - The Art of Making Money Plenty in Every Man's Pocket
At this time when the major complaint is that money is so scarce it must be an act of kindness to instruct the moneyless how they can reinforce their pockets. I will acquaint all with the true secret of money catching, the certain way to fill empty purses and how to keep them full. Two simple rules well observed will do the business. First, let honesty and hard work be thy constant companions; Second spend one cent less every day than thy clearly gains. Then shall thy pockets soon begin to thrive, thy creditors will never insult thee, nor want oppress, nor hunger bite, nor nakedness freeze thee; the whole hemisphere will shine brighter and pleasure spring up in every corner of thy heart. Thereby embrace these rules and be happy.
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The metric system is a decimalized (10) system of measurement using base units: meter=length, gram=weight, liter=capacity.
The decimal system proposed in England by John Wilkins (1668) is thought to have been introduced to France by people like Benjamin Franklin. Eventually Louis XVI of France asking a group of genius' to develop a 'unified, natural and universal' system of measurement to replace the widely varying systems then in use. The system developed by the group, among them Lavoisier, was adopted by the revolutionary government of France. Thomas Jefferson, the American ambassador to France during the American War of Independence, established the decimal system for the new United States currency system; he was unsuccessfully for the adoption of a decimal system of weights and measures.
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Quipu (Spanish spelling), a recording devices used by the Inca, usually consisted of colored spun and plied threads from llama or alpaca hair or cotton cords with knots that encoded tax, census and events data. The knots seem to represent a base 10 positional system. Some kuipu (kuipu is word for "knot" in Quechua, the native Inca language) may have just a few strands, others have up to 2,000 strands.
North American indigenous peoples' wampum, usually thought of as a medium of exchange, or currency, was also used in a similar way.
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