[DOC] [TLE] History of money - Wikipedia [PAR] The history of money concerns the development of means of carrying out 
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medieval and early modern period; 1.3 Seventeenth century; 1.4 Eighteenth 
century ... The monetary unit is feminine, la/une livre, while "book" is masculine, 
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adopted as the name of the US monetary unit in the late 18th century. .... but 
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and life), which the Glorious Revolution had vested in the king in Parliament. ... 
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and ... of imperial plunder, extracted by the East India Company in the 18th 
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Charlemagne introduced a standardized silver money, based on a new pound ( 
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. ... This

Question: 18th century kings ran up debts of hundreds of millions of these--not as in books, but as in units of silver currency
Answer: livres