Did tax-driven, state-created money genuinely operate as chartalists describe in the writings of pre-Knapp economists such as Adam Smith, Say, Mill, Marx and Jevons, or is this a retrospective chartalist reading of isolated passages?

Modern chartalists Randall Wray and Mathew Forstater argue that chartalist insights into tax-driven paper money appear in earlier classical writers, citing for example Adam Smith's observation in The Wealth of Nations that a prince could give paper money value by requiring a portion of taxes be paid in it, and Alfred Mitchell-Innes's 1914 credit theory of money describing government money as debt reclaimable by taxation. Whether these passages amount to a developed anticipation of chartalism or a modern re-reading of isolated remarks is not settled.