This presentation discusses the evolution from the British denominations towards the Spanish Milled dollars as the nation moved away from the crown during the American Revolution and how the government depended upon the use of Spanish Milled Dollars well into the mid-1800s. It also discusses the different styles of keeping money accounts in the records of the colonies and early America.

David Powell is currently a Vice President of the Massachusetts Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR). He is the immediate Past President of the Empire State Society of the SAR where he served a two-year term. He served two terms as a Trustee of the National Society of the SAR and in the past has served two terms as an ESSSAR Vice President, along with serving two two-year terms as the President of the Syracuse Chapter of the SAR. He is an appointed member of the SAR Museum Artifact Board and is a SAR George Washington Fellow. He is a Life Member of the Friends of the SAR Library and is a member of the Society of the Friends of the SAR Educational Center and Museum. David belongs to the MA, NY, NJ, CT, NH, RI, VT, VA, and German Societies of the SAR.