There was very little coin in the country and but few bank-notes.

Often the advertisement specified the kind of goods that would be taken and the different values at which they would be received.

Thus, the salt works at Washington, Virginia, in advertising their salt, stated that they would sell it per bushel for seven shillings and sixpence if paid in cash or prime furs; at ten shillings if paid in bear or deer skins, beeswax, hemp, bacon, butter, or beef cattle; and at twelve shillings if in other trade and country produce, as was usual.

[Footnote: _Knoxville Gazette_, June 1, 1793.] Currency.
The prime furs were mink, coon, muskrat, wildcat, and beaver.

Besides this the stores advertised that they would take for their articles cash, beeswax, and country produce or tallow, hogs' lard in white walnut kegs, butter, pork, new feathers, good horses, and also corn, rye, oats, flax, and "old Congress money," the old Congress money being that issued by the Continental Congress, which had depreciated wonderfully in value.
They also took certificates of indebtedness either from the State or the nation because of services performed against the Indians, and certificates of land claimed under various rights.