Coins of the World

Résumé du livre

"This book sets out to deal with the coins used in the different civilizations and countries of the world but not with the whole field of money. Money is a generic term covering the wide variety of objects which furnish the medium of exchange for goods and services, and coinage is only one of such media. though it has sustained the largest and longest role in the history of civilization...Excluded, therefore, from this work is the money of primitive civilizations whether it be the brass armlets of West Africa or the large, flat and circular stone money of the Caroline Islands in Oceania. Equally, paper money, in the shape of banknotes or cheques of the credit commerce of the modern world, lies outside the scope of this book"--Introduction, ix.