Notes on the establisment [sic] of a money unit, and of a coinage for the United States (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

"I. Taking into our view all money transactions, great and small, I question if a common measure of more convenient size than the dollar could be proposed. The va+lue of 100, 1000, 10,000 dollars is well estimated by the mind. So is that of the tenth or the hundredth of a dollar. Few transactions are above or below these limits. The expediency of attending to the size of the money unit will be evident to any one who will consider how inconvenient it would be to a manufacturer or merchant, if, instead of the yard for measuring cloth, either the inch or the mile had been made the unit of measure." This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.