 (Money and Checks) |
"In God we trust; all others must pay cash."
~Anonymous Merchant (Evans and Schmalensee 111) |
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*Coins, first form of money, invented 4000 years ago
*Checks first used 800 years ago *Installment buying (partial payments on purchases) started 1850's *Celluloids and charge coins first issued in 1865 *Paper money use started a century ago *After WWII, "credit boom" began *Diners' Club Card introduced in 1949 *Charge plates used until early 1960's ("Card Classification"; Evans and Schmalensee 19; Greenbaum and Rubinstein 28; MacGregor 647; Mandell xiii; Moose 21) |
Before Credit Cards (Riddle, R)
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Coin and Celluloid |
Charge Plate |
Paper Money and Coins |
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(Jennings, Kaufmann)
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(Jennings, Beloit)
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(Werner)
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