Jay. How have you been? Actually it is a similar story to the shot of whiskey. The lack of money became the mother of invention. In the eastern states in the early days of the Republic barter was necessary. Animal pelts were a valuable comodity for the fur trade. A deer skin (buck skin) was of equal value to the unit of currency then used and which later became the dollar. At the time a buck skin was acceptable in payment to the same value as a dollar. Eventually the dollar became known as a buck.

I was doing a title search in Clinton , Connecticut about two years ago, and had the occasion to go back to one of the very old deeds in the 1790's. It was amazing to find out that between the end of the American Revolution and the War of 1812 we must not have been using dollars as currency. In this deed the buyer had paid for the property in pounds rather than dollars

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