Buch: Money - From Cowrie Shell to Credit Cards
Money - From Cowrie Shell to Credit Cards
Fachbuch
Produktinformation
Autoren: Joe Cribb
Seiten: 192
Format: 275 x 220 mm
Broschur
Klebebindung
Verlag: British Museum Publications Ltd., London
Auflage: 1. Auflage (1986)
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN 0-7141-0862-6
Buchinformation
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Contriutors
Preface
Introductions
1 What is money?
This is money ...
... and this is money
'Primitive money'
2 Origins
The first records
Metal as money
Money as a 'medium of exchange'
Early evidence
Later parallels
The invention of coinage
Coinage in copper
Eastern origins
Banks and banknotes
3 Power over money
The right to coin
Mint control
The Trial of the Pyx
The stamp of authority
Countermarking and overstriking
Reform and recoinage
Decimalisation
Money in time of war
The English Civil War
4 The making of money
Manufacture by hand
Cast coins
The introduction of machinery
Minting in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Metals for coinage
The manufacture of paper money
5 Uses and abuses
Money and the state
Wealth and largesse
Trade
Saving and hoarding
Counting, weighing and testing
Forgery and malparctive
Ornament and talisman
6 From treasure to token
The old world
The age of transition
Revolution and reform
The modern world
Money today and tomorrow
Further reading
Index of names
Index of places
