The Banker's Art

Part I Issuing paper money - cause and effect: Sweden's Stockholm Banco and the first European banknotes; the influence of the Bank of England and the Scottish banks on American banking, 1789-1913; paper for silver - Dutch coin notes and silver notes; Louis Kossuth's banknote issue and legal case in London in 1861; economic warfare - banknote forgery as a deliberate weapon; a case study - classifying the notes of the HongKong and Shanghai Bank. Part II Making paper money - design and symbolism: compound-plate printing and the 19th-century banknote; printing Spanish banknotes in England, 1850-1938; late Qing paper money from Dianshizhai and other printing houses in Shanghai, 1905-12; surviving images, forgotten peoples - native Americans, women and African Americans on US obsolete notes; agents of culture and nationalism - the Confederate Treasury and Confederate currency; "something characteristic of our land" - Eliel Saarinen as a banknote designer; a legend tumbles down - the gypsy on the Bank of Mexico's five peso note printed by the American Bank Note Company; soft images, hard currency - the portrayal of women on paper money.