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From barter to coin: how a simple staple of value became the world’s first durable money. This concise guide traces the birth of coinage, the rise of metal standards, and the stamps that guaranteed weight and reliability across ancient markets.
Beginning with early barter and the move to a common measure of value, the book explains how gold and silver emerged as the practical medium for long-distance trade. It shows how coins evolved from rough pieces of metal to carefully stamped money, and how types, legends, and portraits reflected religion, power, and art in ancient societies.
- How coins started as a practical solution to exchange and evolved into a trusted currency
- Why stamping and weight guarantees mattered for trade across regions
- How coin designs moved from city emblems to famous portraits and deities
- Connections between money, religion, and art in the ancient world
Ideal for readers curious about the origins of money, ancient economies, and the links between commerce and culture.
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George MacDonald was a Scottish author and minister best known for his fairy tales and fantasy novels. A theologian, MacDonald was pastor of Trinity Congregational Church in Arundel before moving to London to teach at the University of London. MacDonald s work influenced many fantasy writers including J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Madeleine L Engle; he is recognized as a mentor to Lewis Carroll and heavily influenced Carroll s decision to submit Alice s Adventures in Wonderland for publication. MacDonald was a prolific writer, and penned such fantasy classics as Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, and Lillith. George MacDonald died in 1905.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book investigates the evolution of coinage by exploring aspects of its production and use from the very beginning through to the establishment of monometallic systems in Greece. The author traces the origins of coinage to electrum, a natural alloy of gold and silver that was widely available in Asia Minor and eventually led to separate minting of the two constituent precious metals. The work examines the varied systems of coinage in antiquity, the evolution of centralized systems for minting and distribution of coins, and the crucial importance of state intervention in maintaining the integrity of coinage as a medium of exchange. The author demonstrates how the availability of abundant supplies of gold and silver in Persia led to a stable bimetallic currency and the dominance of gold coinage, particularly the daric, in international trade. However, in Greece proper, a monometallic silver currency prevailed for centuries, supplemented by gold coinage from external sources to meet the needs of large transactions. The book concludes by discussing the drawbacks of a silver-only currency and the eventual adoption of gold coinage in many Greek cities during the fourth century BC, as well as the use of small denominations to facilitate everyday transactions. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330867730_0
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