The late Neil Shafer was a professional numismatic cataloger and author for more than 50 years and was inducted into the American Numismatic Association and the International Bank Note Society Halls of Fame. He also wrote for Bank Note Reporter. Tom Sheehan is a longtime coin collector and an avid researcher of Washington State numismatics who studies and collects panic scrip. Fred Reed has been an editor of both Paper Money and Coin World magazines. He lives in Dallas.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsviiiPrefaceHow to Use This BookPart I. Scrip from the Panic of 1893Part II. Scrip from the Panic of 1907Part III. Scrip from the Financial Crisis of 1914Appendices:A. 1907 Pseudo or Parody ScripB. Miscellaneous ScripC. The Clearing House Certificate as a Cash Substitute, 1857–1933 (by Loren Gatch)D. G.B. DeBernardi Labor Exchange Scrip of 1895–1905 (by Steven K. Whitfield)BibliographyIndex

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