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The failure of alchemical transmutation to provide mankind with a lever to control the money stock encouraged members of the Hartlib Circle to focus on another expedient promising to generate the same set of benefits as alchemy. They turned their attention towards finding a way to establishing a widely circulating credit currency
Very interesting set of omissions in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Amsterdam -- Alchemists, indeed.