[DiogenesLamp]

The book is in storage for family reasons, so I cannot currently check details, but it's mostly a reference for business in that time period. However, at least some states were still issuing or using state currency in the 1820s. I would guess from context that most currency came from state-chartered banks rather than from the states themselves.

I was wondering if bank issued notes would be regarded as issuing from the authority of the state.

Anyways, we are stuck with the Fiat currency dollar controlled by the zero-intresters. The currency question is the biggest difficulty I see in weathering a financial collapse.

We really need a money system with which they cannot tamper.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

We really need a money system with which they cannot tamper.

Well, there's always barter between friends and neighbors...

(Actually, the past few years have taught me at least that about the only societal organization with any credibility at all outside of immediate family are those "friends and neighbors"....and maybe not all of them.)

[Pollster1]

I was wondering if bank issued notes would be regarded as issuing from the authority of the state.

Many of them held state charters to issue currency, so that would be yes.