A FEW NOTES ABOUT COINS.
The rei of Brazil, like the mill of our own money table, is an imaginary coin, no piece of that denomination being coined. Ten thousand reis equal $5.45.
Vermont was the first State to issue a coinage on its own authority. Copper coins were issued in 1785.
The first woman's face represented on a coin was that of Pulcheria, the Empress of the Eastern Empire.
The Chinese stamp bars or ingots of gold or silver with their weight and fineness, and pass them from hand to hand as coin.
The first Maryland coins were minted in 1662, and were put in circulation by act of Council ordering every householder to bring in sixty pounds of tobacco and receive ten shillings of the new money in exchange for it.
In 1634 the Massachusetts General Assembly made bullets a legal tender by the following enactment: "It is likewise ordered that muskett bulletts of a full boare shall pass currently for a farthing apiece. Provided that noe man be compelled to take above XIId att a tyme in them."