The Paper Moneys of Europe; Their Moral And Economic Significance
The Paper Moneys of Europe; Their Moral And Economic Significance
Hirst Francis Wrigley
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Here was a forced currency indeed.^ For a few months an artificial im- 9 R. G. Hawtrey, Currency and Credit* Longmans Green & Co.» London^ 1919* Digitized by Google OF EUROPE 23 provement was effected in the value of the assignat by these ferocious measures; but in 1795, after the Terror, the system and the paper money collapsed. The gold and silver money, which had been hoarded, returned to circulation. In June, 1795, the quotation of the assignat oscillated violently. On one day a louis of 24... livres would buy 450 paper livres, on another, 1000." Paper notes which fluctuated so violently were useless as money. They could not serve either as a medium of exchange or as a measure of value. Country people expressed their contempt for the assignats by calling them V argent de Parts. A new currency of mandats was tried, «® Hawtrey, op. cit., chap. xv. Digitized by Google 24 THE PAPER MONEYS into which assignats were made convert- ible. It was a complete failure. The assignats were wound up in 1796, and in February, 1797, there was "a general demonetisation of paper money."" The holders got practically nothing.
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