Permanent historical factsheet

Reform of Currency

Scotland · Government / Government of Scotland. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1717–1720Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1717

John Law29 May 1717

Paris · Government / Government of Scotland

An edict orders a recoinage registered in the cour des monnaies

1720

John Law21 May 1720

Paris · Government / Government of Scotland

Bank-notes & company shares are devalued

Names involved

John Law

Provenance

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