This reference work offers 228 entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics and the arts. Not only does the book cover the evolution and circulation of money throughout history, it also includes biographical information on the designers of coins.

This edition is a revised and updated edition of the international bestseller and looks at the more than 5000 years that humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods, long before the invention of cash. This book is where money as a physical object meets money as policy.

Dollars is an entertaining, informative book on how coins and bills have marked the political and social history of the world. Tracing legal tender from the fifteenth century country of Tyrol to the recent rise and fall of the U.S. Sacagawea and Presidential dollar coins. By exploring the dollar, Bartlett gives the reader an understanding of the importance and role dollars have played throughout history in the geopolitical climate of countries. With a generous sprinkling of easily digested history, Dollars give the reader information on why some coins and paper money seemed to disappear almost before they were released and some others remain in circulation. Dollars also explains the advantages of coins in relation to paper dollars for trade dollars in an understandable manner. Dollars belongs on your bookshelf as a companion to historical and economic texts for collectors, enthusiasts and anyone who wants to understand the dollar better.

This book looks at the tension between currency's real and abstract properties and advancing a vital theory of money rooted in this dual exchange. It begins with the debt tablets of Mesopotamia and follows with the development of coin money in ancient Greece and Rome, gold-backed currencies in medieval Europe, and monetary economics in Victorian England. The book ends in the digital era, with the cryptocurrencies and service providers that are making the most of money's virtual side and that suggest a tectonic shift in what we call money.

This book presents a detailed and surprising history of money from Charlemagne's reform in approximately AD800 to the end of the Silver Wars in 1896. It also summarizes twentieth century developments and places them in their historical context.

This title looks at the history of money, tracing our relationship with it from the time when primitive men exchanged cowrie shells to the arrival of the electronic cash card.

A new edition of a detailed, scholarly analysis of the development and role of money in many of the world's nations from ancient to modern times. First published in 1996.

Examines the history of money, including the barter system, early trade in North America, unusual types of money such as huge stone disks and salt bars, and the first paper money.

Examines the history of money from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt to today's cashless alternatives.

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This volume provides a critical evaluation of Anna J. Schwartz's work. Digital versions of parts written by Michael D. Bordo are available at the NBER's website.
Introduction to "Money, History, and International Finance: Essays in Honor of Anna J. Schwartz" External
The Contribution of "A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960" to Monetary History. Michael D. Bordo External

The author shows how money is a useful fiction that has shaped societies for thousands of years, from the rise of coins in ancient Greece to the first stock market in Amsterdam to the emergence of shadow banking in the 21st century. Includes a cast of characters who reimagined money like Kublai Khan, the Mongol emperor who created paper money backed by nothing, John Law who brought modern money to France and the computer programmers who paved the way for bitcoin.

This is a series of essays on how people have paid through history from cryptocurrencies to leaf-imprinted banknotes to records kept with knotted string. Museums are full of the coins, notes, beads, shells, stones, and other objects people have exchanged for millennia. Although we've been told for years that we're heading toward total cashlessness, payment is increasingly dependent on access to the technology.