Author : Roderick P. Hughes
Publisher : Frederick Fell Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780883911242
Originally released as "Fell's United States Coins Book," this edition--with hundreds of updated coin photos and thousands of prices--is required reading for both serious and beginning coin collectors.
Author : Steve Nolte
Publisher : Frederick Fell Publishers
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780883911662
Do you immediately turn to the date on every shiny coin you pick up? Are you one of the few people who knows when the next new state quarter or presidential dollar is coming out - before they hit the bank? Have you ever wondered why the person in front of you at the bank was buying all those rolls of coins? If you answered yes to these and other questions like this in the Everything Guide, ? YOU MIGHT BE A COIN COLLECTOR! Collecting on a budget will provide you with tips and tidbits to nurture your interest in the type of coins that intrigue you, turning your holdings into a safe and potentially valuable investment. Nolte provides a fun-filled journey allowing you to navigate one of the world's most exciting hobbies. Enter your next bourse feeling like a veteran. Make your experiences cost cutting, time saving, doubt erasing resulting in an eye pleasing and funfilled coin collection.
Author : Adrian Goldsworthy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0300155603
The author discusses how the Roman Empire--an empire without a serious rival--rotted from within, its rulers and institutions putting short-term ambition and personal survival over the wider good of the state.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 42,40 MB
Release : 2019-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1476677964
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
Author : J. A. Baird
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0191511471
Dura-Europos, on the Syrian Euphrates, is one of the best preserved and most extensively excavated sites of the Roman world. A Hellenistic foundation later held by the Parthians and then the Romans, Dura had a Roman military garrison installed within its city walls before it was taken by the Sasanians in the mid-third century. The Inner Lives of Ancient Houses is the first study to consider the houses of the site as a whole. The houses were excavated by a team from Yale and the French Academy of Inscriptions and Letters in the 1920s and 30s, and though a wealth of archaeological and textual material was recovered, most of that relating to housing was never published. Through a combination of archival information held at the Yale University Art Gallery and new fieldwork with the Mission Franco-Syrienne d'Europos-Doura, this study re-evaluates the houses of the site, integrating architecture, artefacts, and textual evidence, and examining ancient daily life and cultural interaction, as well as considering houses which were modified for use by the Roman military.
Author : David Murray Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0198704747
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of Western monetary law, covering the civil law and Anglo-American common law legal systems from the High Middle Ages up to the middle of the 20th century. Weaving a detailed tapestry of the changing concepts of money and private transactions throughout the ages, the contributors investigate the special contribution made by legal scholars and practitioners to our understanding of money and the laws that govern it. Divided in five parts, the book begins with the coin currency of the Middle Ages, moving through the invention of nominalism in the early modern period to cashless payment and the rise of the banking system and paper money, then charting the progression to fiat money in the modern era. Each part commences with an overview of the monetary environment for the historical period written by an economic historian or numismatist. These are followed by chapters describing the legal doctrines of each period in civil and common law. Each section contains examples of contemporary litigation or statute law which engages with the distinctive issues affecting the monetary law of the period. This interdisciplinary approach reveals the distinctive conception of money prevalent in each period, which either facilitated or hampered the implementation of economic policy and the operation of private transactions.
Author : Steve Nolte
Publisher : Frederick Fell Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780883911747
With hundreds of updated coin photos and thousands of current prices, this book has been a perennial favorite since 1943. Originally released as Fell's United States Coin Book, this edition, specially revised for "Fell's Official Know-It-All" series is required reading for both serious and begining coin collectors.
Author : Akinobu Kuroda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1000054578
Looking from the 11th century to the 20th century, Kuroda explores how money was used and how currencies evolved in transactions within local communities and in broader trade networks. The discussion covers Asia, Europe and Africa and highlights an impressive global interconnectedness in the pre-modern era as well as the modern age. Drawing on a remarkable range of primary and secondary sources, Kuroda reveals that cash transactions were not confined to dealings between people occupying different roles in the division of labour (for example shopkeepers and farmers), rather that peasants were in fact great users of cash, even in transactions between themselves. The book presents a new categorization framework for aligning exchange transactions with money usage choices. This fascinating monograph will be of great interest to advanced students and researchers of economic history, financial history, global history and monetary studies.
Author : Allen G. Berman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 869 pages
File Size : 50,21 MB
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 144021915X
The only single-volume guide to valuation and identification of coins, medals, tokens and paper money of the world. This is undoubtedly the best reference available for beginning coin collectors. Anyone with an interest in coins or paper money will appreciate the helpful, comprehensive, and easy-to-follow format of this book - the hobby's best introductory volume. Thorough, well-researched and well-illustrated, this book attempts to give readers a taste of all areas, including U.S., world and ancient coins, as well as tokens, medals, proof and mint sets, fractional and postal currency, paper money and checks. From the most-recognized publishers of numismatic references, as well as the source of all Warman's antique and collectibles book, this guide is a great value.
Author : Martin Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1351942522
Mark Blackburn was one of the leading scholars of the numismatics and monetary history of the British Isles and Scandinavia during the early medieval period. He published more than 200 books and articles on the subject, and was instrumental in building bridges between numismatics and associated disciplines, in fostering international communication and cooperation, and in establishing initiatives to record new coin finds. This memorial volume of essays commemorates Mark Blackburn’s considerable achievement and impact on the field, builds on his research and evaluates a vibrant period in the study of early medieval monetary history. Containing a broad range of high-quality research from both established figures and younger scholars, the essays in this volume maintain a tight focus on Europe in the early Middle Ages (6th-12th centuries), reflecting Mark’s primary research interests. In geographical terms the scope of the volume stretches from Spain to the Baltic, with a concentration of papers on the British Isles. As well as a fitting tribute to remarkable scholar, the essays in this collection constitute a major body of research which will be of long-term value to anyone with an interest in the history of early medieval Europe.
