The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 44, October 31, 2004, Article 6

SOUND CURRENCY REFORM CLUB

  Tom's request for information on Panic scrip is timely.
  A few weeks ago I acquired an interesting pair of volumes
  for my library.  They are bound volumes of Sound Money,
  a periodical produced by the Sound Currency Committee
  of the Reform Club (Vol II/III, 1895/1896, Vols VI/VII,
  1899/1900).

  The Reform Club was an organization formed during the
  great "currency question" debates of the William Jennings
  Bryan presidential candidacies.  Although I generally shy
  away from the literature of this era for fear that the politics
  distorts the writing, I was delighted to find a number of
  straightforward articles relating to the history of money and
  currency.  The one which first caught my eye is in the
  February 15, 1895 issue (Vol. II, No. 6), titled "The
  Currency Famine of 1893" by John Dewitt Warner.  The
  20-page article illustrates 48 specimens of the 1893 panic
  scrip.  I've never seen this many 1893 notes illustrated in
  one place - this may be the most comprehensive listing
  ever compiled prior to the work now underway.

  Other articles in the volume discuss the bank currency of
  various states, Canada and Scotland, as well as compilations
  of coinage laws.  The March 15, 1896 issue  (Vol. III, No. 8)
  has an 8-page page article by Simon W. Rosendale on
  "Wampum Currency: The Story Told by the Colonial
  Ordinances of New Netherlands."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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