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War and payment innovation: the adoption of paper currency in Britain
Digital currencies and stablecoins have increased interest in how new forms of money are adopted. Looking to three episodes from the 1690s to the First World War, this post considers how paper currency replaced coin in Britain, an historical example of adoption of new money. The underlying drivers were not technological changes but wars, leading to actual or feared shortages of coin, and a need to take specie out of internal circulation in order to meet overseas outflows. The public authorities took the initiative and created trust successfully in the new money. This is the first of a series of planned posts by Bank ... (full story)
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