money

The simplest way I can explain is that instead of have $1 - $100 Banknotes the US adopted a system that had $1 -$100 coins? How would something like this be implemented in the 1800s and how would this change American History?

What if Queen Marie Antoinette of France, instead of being a heavy gambler and spender, was instead a penny-pincher who was averse to expending too much money? (I known this may as be ASB for the absurdity, but I'm curious nonetheless)

I’m just wondering what could be a viable alternative. And for reference, here’s the legal origin of the name dollar being used for American currency. https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/United_States_Statutes_at_Large/Volume_1/2nd_Congress/1st_Session/Chapter_16

Okay, so your goal here is to basically, throughout the mid-to-late 20th and early 21st century, have the American dollar deflate, or increase in value, instead of inflating, or decreasing in value. I... am sub-par at economics, so I don't know how one would go about it, but I'd like to see how...

I don’t know if this already exists, but yeah, here is a thread dedicated to alternate physical currencies.

For those who don't know, @King of the Uzbeks is doing a really good TL on how the Tawantinsuyu Empire might have avoided conquest by the Spanish (at least in the 1530's). OTL, one of the biggest consequences of this conquest began about a dozen years after Pizarro's Conquest (or 1545), with the...

Let's say, with a 1932 PoD, Hitler doesn't come to power and WWII is prevented; what I'm specifically interested in here is how that affects the monetary policy of the world economy at large. AIUI, OTL saw most of the world drop the Gold Standard during the Great Depression; then came WWII...

The quarter century or so following the formation of the Bank of England in 1694 proved to be a crucial period in the evolution of modern capitalism, including the Mississpi and South Sea Bubbles, the economic thinking of Nicholas Barbon and John Law, the formation of the U.K., and arguably the...