Author: Francis Wrigley HirstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Paper Moneys of Europe
Author: Francis Wrigley HirstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Paper Moneys of Europe
Author: Francis W. HirstPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520348516
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1922. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived
The Paper Money of Europe
Author: Francis W. HirstThe Paper Moneys of Europe: Their Moral and Economic Significance
Author: Francis W. HirstPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Written around a century ago, this work provides an exciting basis for understanding the concept of money and sheds light on the financial issues in Europe at the time. A must-read for anyone enthusiastic about history and finance.
A Flutter of Banknotes
Author: René BrionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Paper Moneys of Europe Their Moral and Economic Significance
Author: Francis Wrigley HirstPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548414221
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
THEIR MORAL AND ECONOMIC SIGNIFICANCE No more severe reflection could be passed upon the moral and political capacity of the human species than this: Five thousand years after the invention of writing, three thousand after the invention of money, and (nearly) five hundred since the invention of printing, governments all over the world are employing the third invention for the purpose of debasing the second; thereby robbing millions of innocent individuals of their property on a scale so extensive that previous public confiscations of private property through the adulteration of money-in ancient Rome, in Ireland under James the Second, in Prussia during the Seven Years' War, in the American colonies and the United States, in Portugal, in Greece, in various republics of Central and South America, even the assignats of the French Revolution-seem pigmy frauds in comparison with the present vast inundation of counterfeit paper money. In these times, when so much attention is given to what I may call the prehistoric history of mankind, it would ill become me, a mere adventurer in anthropology, to discuss the origin of money or to attempt an explanation of the curious fact that the art of coining money was invented and perfected a thousand years before the art of printing. The coins struck by the best cities of ancient Greece are a model and a reproach to our modern mints; and being for the most part of good silver, they fulfilled the two main functions of currency-as a measure of value and a medium of exchange. Silver was well adapted for the purposes of currency by its ductility, durability, divisibility, portability, and value. Its value depended on three things. In the first place, it was scarce; in the second, it was much in demand for the arts and manufactures; and in the third place, its intrinsic value was increased and stabilized by the needs and demands of the mints. Gold had similar qualifications, but it was too scarce and too precious until the nineteenth century, in the course of which (for reasons which I need not enter upon here), most of the great commercial nations adopted a gold standard. Copper possessed in a less degree the qualifications of gold and silver, but it was the first metal to be coined into money in ancient Rome. The Roman as or pondo weighed a Roman pound of good copper, therefore possessed the two principal attributes of good money, a definite weight and a definite fineness. It was divided like our troy pound into twelve ounces of good copper. The English Troyes or Troy pound was first used in the English mint in the time of Henry the Eighth. Edward the First's pound sterling was a Tower pound of silver of a definite fineness. Charlemagne's livre was a Troyes pound of silver of definite fineness. The old English Scotch pence or pennies contained originally a real pennyweight of silver, one twentieth of an ounce and one two hundred and fortieth of a pound. The famous pre-war English sovereign, now demonetized and misrepresented by the depreciated paper pound, was itself also a weight; but the twenty shillings and two hundred and forty pence which exchanged for it were token coins depending for their value upon the gold sovereign....
The 2001 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money, Modern Issues 1961-2001
Author: Colin R. BrucePublisher:
ISBN: 9780873492379
Category : Paper money
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This ninth edition of one of the most comprehensive references for modern world paper money includes current market values for more than 10,600 notes in three grades of condition and over 7,200 photos and illustrations. 8-page color insert.
Paper Money of the World
Author: Jerome M. EisenbergCatalogue of European Paper Money since 1900
Author: Albert PickPublisher:
ISBN: 9780706124972
Category : Bank notes
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Paper Money of Europe
Author: Francis W. HirstPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781341047565
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
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