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Booker, John
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I remember traveling in Europe as a teenager in the early 1980s, before ATMs and euros, when American Express travelerās checks allowed me to pay for room and board across a succession of sovereign states.
Booker ends his book where I started my personal monetary journey, telling the fascinating history of how (mostly British) tourists paid their way across Europe and North America, using such strange devices as circular notes and early incarnations of the travelerās check. The book includes numerous color plates of these pieces of paper, issued by Thomas Cook, Lloyds Bank, and even American Express! I alsoā¦
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