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John Sherman: “I do not believe that any commercial nation can conduct modern operations of business upon the basis of coin alone.”

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I do not believe that any commercial nation can conduct modern operations of business upon the basis of coin alone.
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John Sherman
Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Sherman argues that modern business cannot rely solely on coin for transactions.

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