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Carothers on "Fractional Money"

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Carothers on  Fractional Money
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Carothers, Neil. FRACTIONAL MONEY: A HISTORY OF THE SMALL COINS AND FRACTIONAL CURRENCY OF THE UNITED STATES. New York: Wiley, 1930. Small 8vo, original red cloth, gilt. Frontispiece; xiii, (1), 372 pages. Fine. The scarce original edition of this important reference, originally the author's 1916 Princeton doctoral dissertation. Seven decades after publication, it remains a storehouse of useful and important numismatic information on U.S. coins and fractional currency. Pete Smith has noted that "Much of the original edition was destroyed in a warehouse fire." Clain-Stefanelli 13465. Grierson 221: "L'un intérêt et d'une valeur exceptionnels." Sigler 441. Voted as one of the Numismatic Bibliomania Society's "One Hundred Greatest Items of United States Numismatic Literature."