A history of money
"A History of Money - From Ancient Times to the Present Day is a highly readable account of the central importance of money in both everyday and business life. There are relatively few books on monetary history and those that exist tend to be narrow in geographical scope and historical focus. In his book, Glyn Davies takes a broad perspective and analyses the development and role of money in many of the world's nations from ancient to modern times."--Jacket.
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- On books about economics history, this is the best i have read.
A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, Glyn Davies 3rd edition 2002
https://archive.org/stream/A_History_of_Money-From_Ancient_T...
- I became more interested in coins and monetary systems after reading "A history of money" by Glyn Davies et. al. (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/45426.A_History_of_Money). It's quite long but it goes into great detail about monetary systems and coinage throughout history. The discussion of how the Romans, Greeks and British used coinage to fund their wars and political endeavours, how they diluted the gold or silver content their different coins over time and how that led to unwanted side effects is quite fascinating, at least to me.
Most coins themselves are not very interesting from an artisanal point of view I find, it's more the story behind them that's often really fascinating.
- http://www.amazon.com/History-Money-Ancient-Times-Present/dp...
A History of Money: From Ancient Times to the Present Day by Glyn Davies ISBN-10: 0708317170 ISBN-13: 978-0708317174
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