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Coins, Currency & American History

Coins, Currency & American History

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America was not built in a straight line.
It was built through arguments about power, money, and trust.


This podcast tells the story of the United States through the forces that shaped it beneath the surface: currency, credit, debt, and the systems people argued over long before the outcomes were clear. Instead of memorizing dates and battles, we follow the economic and political choices that quietly defined who benefited, who paid the price, and why the nation developed the way it did.

From the fight between Hamilton and Jefferson, to the rise and fall of early national banks, to gold rushes that turned frontiers into financial centers, each episode explores how Americans tried to turn ideals into institutions. How paper promises competed with hard money. How regional economies grew apart even as the country claimed unity. And how decisions made in moments of uncertainty echoed for generations.


This is not a story about heroes or villains.


It’s a story about systems, incentives, and unintended consequences.

Across 52 episodes, the series moves from the founding era to the modern age, showing how debates over money and power never really ended, they only changed form. Every crisis, boom, panic, and reform is part of the same ongoing argument about who controls value and what a nation owes its people.

If you want to understand why America works the way it does today, you have to understand how it learned to pay its bills, trust its currency, and fight over who held the keys.

This is American history, told through the economics that made it real.

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  • Ep. 9 – The War of 1812 and the Three Americas
    Feb 27 2026

    The War of 1812 was a defining moment for America. Often counted a minor conflict, it was anything but. It revealed the United States was not one nation with a shared experience. There were three Americas. Each lived the war through a different lens, with a different idea of what the country should be. And the fissures exposed would echo all the way to the Civil War...

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  • Ep. 8 – The End of the First National Bank
    Feb 20 2026

    Thomas Jefferson had won the presidency. His vision had triumphed. Federal power would shrink. State power would rise. His Louisiana Purchase doubled the nation’s size, but he set the stage for a decentralized republic. When the First Bank of the United States’ charter expired, Congress let it close. And in the silence that followed, cracks began to appear...

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  • Ep. 7 – The Louisiana Purchase and a Debtor Nation
    Feb 13 2026

    There comes a moment when every young nation must prove its reliability. For the United States, that moment arrived in 1803. The Revolution was over, and the early republic was beginning to find its footing. Purchasing the Louisiana Territory would be the cost of securing a future. But it was the country’s first great financial leap – and the world was watching...

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