... silver dollar, the “dollar of our fathers” and the standard currency of the day, remained fixed in value. Laughlin, History of Bimetallism, p. 70.106 A History of Money and Banking in the United ... Economic History: Its Findings and Methods,” in The Reinterpretation of American History, Robert WilliamFogel and Stanley L. Engerman, eds. (New York: Harper and Row, 1971),p. 7.110 A History of ... Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury explained thepurpose of this broad legalization of foreign coins: “to provide a full sup-ply and variety of coins, instead of bills below five and ten...