Word: cannikin
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...bastard from the West Indies named Alexander Hamilton. Banks were new even in Europe but this 27-year-old veteran of the Revolution knew all the banking there was to know. It took a pocket full of depreciated paper money to buy a twist of to bacco or a cannikin of rum and people had long talked of a bank whose stock would be subscribed in land. But Hamilton's bank was to be a specie bank or no bank at all. The president, directors and company of the Bank of New York were organized with $500.000 capital. Among...