Where can I discover just when Britain began using bank notes? And what were the denominations issued? I'm particularly interested in finding out this information pertaining to the years 1800- 1827.
The Answer
You should find what you are looking for in Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe 2 ed. (Oxford University Press) 1993. I also think Meir Kohn of Dartmouth College may have done some work on this (see the abstracts in EhNet), since he covered this in his Financial Institutions and Markets text which is now out of print.
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