Twenty dollars of Continental Currency, 1775. Culture Club/Lebrecht/Getty Images Nevertheless, runaway inflation and the collapse in value of the continental currency led to the Coinage Act of ...

If everyone rushed to the Continental Treasury in 1779 with their Continental dollars, how the Treasury would decide which to accept to fill that year’s quota and which to turn away was ...

Continentals refers to paper currency issued by the Continental Congress in 1775 ... in 1779. By 1785, the continental currency was so remarkably worthless ... of the U.S. dollar ...