Money: A History
Publisher: Firefly Books
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2007-09-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1554072824
ISBN-13: 9781554072828
A colorful history of coins and currency from their very beginnings. Money tells the story of coins and paper money from ancient to modern times. The book is an exciting collaboration by curators at the British Museum, home to one of the world’s finest numismatic collections. Profusely illustrated with 545 color and archival images, Money traces the use of monetary exchange from a primitive barter system to the online, cashless systems operating today. Money examines its subject with authority and imagination, covering its history through the ages and across the world: Ancient M...