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There's a hilarious example of speculation, probably connected to the new US national bank, but written as fiction: The Hunchback, by Paul Feval, 1857, translated unabridged in 2021 by Stuart Gelzer. People of various Parisian classes trade tickets of different colours, in frantic exercises of trying to get rich and successful.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Hunchback_Unabridged_Translation.html?id=NudXzgEACAAJ

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