shinplaster การใช้

• See Fractional currency, and also Shinplaster.
• However, Texans used bank notes from other states and shinplasters instead of the Texas money.
• Shinplaster referred to a small, square piece of paper that could be used as plaster to treat sore legs.
• The low-value paper currency, whether issued by government or business, were called shinplasters by the public, which disliked them.
• By 1912, money had virtually disappeared from the Wyndham economy, and purchases were paid for using promissory notes known as " shinplasters ".
• "' Shinplaster "'was a common name for paper money of low denomination company shop economies or peonages in place of legal tender.
• A book roughly contemporary with the term, John Russell Bartlett's " The Dictionary of Americanisms ", defines a shinplaster as " A cant term for a bank-note, or any paper money.
• It probably came into use in 1837, when the banks suspended specie payment, and when paper money became depreciated in value . " Then the book quotes the " New York Tribune " of December 3, 1845 : " The people may whistle for protection, and put up with what shinplaster rags they can get ."
• Breen told of the pressure advocates for nickel put on House Coinage Committee chairman John Adam Kasson, finally winning him over to the position that even 25 % nickel coins ( which would be hard on the Mint's equipment ) would be better than the continued use of shinplasters, and presenting him with a draft of a bill for a three-cent piece of that alloy.