フィラデルフィア歴史ウォーキングツアー：250年の貨幣とインフレーション

I highly recommend this tour! Brian is extremely knowledgeable about the history of money and monetary policy in the US, and we enjoyed learning about that history while visiting notable landmarks that played a major role! If you’re interested in an educational walking tour in the Philly’s beautiful old city district, I highly recommend this one!

Great tour that blended history and finance together. Cool and unique way to experience Philadelphia!

Great tour! Was a fun way to learn some history that was different than the typical philadelphia historical tours. As a Philly native, I had no idea that so much of our country’s financial system was built here. Brian did a great job and is clearly very passionate.

My friends and I had such a wonderful experience taking this History of Money & Inflation Tour. This was my first time visiting Philadelphia, and Brian made the history come alive in a way that was engaging, fascinating, and approachable. He was very knowledgeable and clearly passionate about the history he was sharing. What I especially loved was how well the tour worked for both history buffs (like my husband) and relative novices (like myself). We saw all of the major highlights of Old City Philadelphia, but the tour went beyond simply checking off classic American landmarks. It gave a the deeper historical context and brought it full circle by explaining how that history helped shape the current state of inflation and our economy today. It was a great, fun way to spend the morning while also being educational and highly relevant! Great tour, I highly recommend, thanks again!

Super underrated, interesting topic and a gracious, passionate guide! Do you know why gold was used as money? What the Bank of the United States was and why it ceased to exist? Where do we get the term “greenback” and why do the years 1907 and 1913 live in infamy? Brian does and his enthusiasm shines through on a walk by some lesser-known —- but no less important — sites. You would definitely be rewarding yourself (maybe even financially) to check out this tour that explores how money has worked from colonial days through today.

Fascinating !! We didn’t know what to expect, and a tour about banking in Philadelphia sounded dry. Boy were we wrong. Brian is a Philadelphia native, and this tour is his personal project, built from years of genuine passion for the subject. That shows in every stop. In less than ninety minutes, he takes you from the colonial currency chaos that preceded the Constitution, through Hamilton’s creation of the American banking system, all the way to the Federal Reserve and the inflation we live with today — and he makes every bit of it fascinating. His gift is making the abstract tangible. He pulls out side-by-side comparisons of historical and modern currency, walks you through an inflation chart spanning 1792 to today, and explains fiat money and the Nixon Shock in ways that suddenly make the dollar in your pocket feel like a living piece of history. Standing in front of the United States Mint while he tells these stories gives the whole thing a weight no classroom can match. Brian is warm, funny, and endlessly knowledgeable. This is not a franchise tour — it is one Philadelphian’s intellectual passion shared generously with anyone willing to walk and listen. Five stars. And would do it again.

Loved this tour. Got to see main sites (1st bank, carpenters hall, ind hall) and learn something about money. Great experience!

Brian is a very knowledgeable and interesting guide. I learned a great deal and enjoyed the tour. Recommend!

Brian took on an interesting, important and challenging topic. I learned a great deal and the tour stimulated my interest in learning more. Although Brian’s perspective is not my own, I found it is stimulating that he offered a point of view.

Really interesting tour with a lot of interesting nuggets. It made me think about how much money changed over US history, and never would have guessed so much happened in Philly. Tour guide Brian did great job. Highly recommend!