A More Perfect Dollar
What if one dollar were worth 1,440 units?
Before the United States could place its ideals on its coins, its founders had to answer a deceptively difficult question: What should American money actually be?
In this episode of Worth Its Weight, follow the dollar from the monetary chaos of colonial America to Robert Morris’s mathematically elegant—but magnificently impractical—1,440-unit system. Discover how Morris risked his wealth and personal credit to sustain the Revolution, why Thomas Jefferson rejected his tiny monetary unit but preserved his decimal logic, and how Alexander Hamilton…
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