Richard Sylla
Henry Kaufman Professor of the History of Financial Institutions and Markets, and Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University.

Email: rsylla@stern.nyu.edu. For helpful comments on an earlier version of this Article, I would like to thank the participants in the conference on Money Matters: The
Law, Economics and Politics of Currency, held at Tel Aviv University, January 2009, especially Dror Goldberg, my discussant, but also Bruce Carruthers, Christine Desan, Roy Kreitner, Jeff Sklansky, Randy Wray, and Michael Zakim.