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How the Dollar Created America (Part 1)
The U.S. dollar's origin story begins not in Philadelphia or Washington, but in a half-frozen mining valley in 16th-century Bohemia, where Saxon miners accidentally named their town after a saint and set the world's domi...
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How the Dollar Created America (Part 1) is an episode from History Unplugged Podcast by Scott Rank, PhD. The U.S. dollar's origin story begins not in Philadelphia or Washington, but in a half-frozen mining valley in 16th-century Bohemia, wh...
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Published May 21, 2026, 51:18 long, audio available.






