“Philadelphia isn’t the only community experimenting with this idea. Other areas, like the Berkshire area of Massachusetts, have a similar currency (theirs is called BerkShares formerly http://www.berkshares.org/whatareberkshares.htm#faqs, not to be confused with Buffett’s Berkshire). The exchange of Equal Dollars is a $2.5 million operation, according to RHD. BerkShares claims that it circulated over one million BerkShares circulated in the first nine months of operation and over 2.7 million to date (roughly pegged at $.95 U.S. per BerkShare formerly http://www.berkshares.org/whatareberkshares.htm#ten). Ithaca HOURS, touted as the oldest local currency in the country, currently has over $100,000 in circulation formerly http://www.ithacahours.org/#whatareithacahours.”
