Definizione

• Tobacco was used in many of the Brit- ish Colonies as a medium of exchange for currency. Oldmixon, in his British Em- pire in America, 1708, writing of Mary- land, says: "The Lord Proprietary had a Mint here, to coin Money, but it was never made much use of. . . . Tobacco is their Meat, Drink, Cloathing, and Money."

  Under the Antigua Act of November 20, 1644, "one thousand pound of good Marchantable tobacco in Role" was one of the fines. In the Bermudas the "Martial Officers at the Tonne," i.e., at St. George, were paid in tobacco in 1620, and later. See Chalmers, History of Currency in the British Colonies, 1893 (passim)

Fonte

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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