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- Summary
- Providing more than 250 alphabetical entries, this encyclopedia provides historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts, and following the developments of money through such varied forms as beaver skins and sea salt blocks. The cross-referenced entries include stories of particular coins, engravers, biblical references, counterfeiters, assay and mintmarks, shipwrecks, monetary slang, and essays on the creation of the U.S. monetary system by famous historical figures. For readers interested in sociological aspects of monetary exchange, the book touches on blood money, gold rushes, Wells Fargo, the gold standard, hoarding, and Fibonacci's democratization of the number system
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 562 pages
- Contents
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- Admiral Gardner -- African money -- Alexius I Comnenus -- Al-Kwarizmi -- American eagle -- Amulet coins -- Anglo-Saxon coins -- Appledore hoard -- Assay marks -- Assignat -- Athelstan -- Atocha -- Joseph Alexis Bailly -- Banking -- Bank of England -- Charles Edward Barber -- William Barber -- William Barber -- Bas-relief -- George Bass -- Christoph Bechtler -- Bezant -- Bible currency -- Bimetallism -- Blackbeard -- Blood money -- Anne Bonny -- Matthew Boulton -- Bracteate -- Donato Bramante -- Ephraim Brasher -- Victor D. Brenner -- Brinks robberies -- Nicholas Briot -- William Jennings Bryan -- Abel Buell -- Adolf Burger -- Dr. Selma Burke -- Byzantine coins -- Canadian money -- Canute I -- La Capitana -- Caradosso -- Carausius -- Catherine II -- Benvenuto Cellini -- Celtic coins -- Central America -- Chinese money -- L.M. Cark -- Cloth and fiber money -- Cobs -- Cocoa bean money -- Coconut money -- Coinage -- Coin clipping and shaving -- Coin collectors -- Coins & currency in art -- Coins & currency in drama and film -- Coins and currency in literature -- Colonial coins -- Commemorative issue -- Confederate money -- Continental currency -- Counterfeiting -- Counterstamp -- Cowrie -- Credit card fraud -- Daric -- Anthony de Francisci -- Denga -- Denier -- Dinar -- Dirhan -- Dollar -- Dollar diplomacy -- Drachma -- Sir Francis Drake -- Drum money -- Ducat -- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel -- Ecu -- Edward the Confessor
- Egbert -- Egyptian coins -- Elephant token -- St. Eligius -- English money -- E pluribus unum -- Escudo -- Euro -- Exchequer -- Feather money -- Fiat money -- Leonardo Fibonacci -- 50 state quarters -- Filthy lucre -- Mel Fisher -- Fishhook money -- Florin -- Food stamps -- Forint -- Fort Knox -- Franc -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Earle Fraser -- Frederick the Great -- Fur money -- Percy Gardner -- Frank Gasparro -- Charles Gibbs -- Giro system -- Christian Gobrecht -- Gold dust -- Gold rush -- Gold standard -- Humertus Goltzius -- Georg Heinrich, Baron von Gortz -- Great Seal of the United States -- Greek coins -- Greenbacks -- Thomas Gresham -- Gresham\2019s Law -- Groat -- Gros -- Gros Tournois -- Guinea -- Gulden -- Hallmark -- Alexander Hamilton -- Piet Heyn -- Hibernia coppers -- Sir George Hill -- Hoarding -- Hogge money -- John Hull -- Hunley -- William Hunter -- Ieyasu -- Incuse -- Indent -- Money of India -- In God We Trust -- Inscriptions -- Interpol -- Irish money -- Islamic money -- Japanese money -- Thomas Jefferson -- John the Good -- Captain William Kidd -- Klippe -- Knights Hospitallers -- Knights Templar -- Krugerrand -- Larin -- John Law -- Leather & hide money -- Leone Leoni -- Joseph Lesher -- Lion dollar -- Lira -- James Barton Longacre -- Lydian coins -- Macedonian coins -- Thomas Machin -- Hermon Atkins MacNeil -- Mammon -- Manilla -- March of Dimes -- Mark -- Markka -- Maundy money
- Hugh McCulloch -- Medieval coins -- Mercury dime -- Mint mark -- Gaspare Molo -- Moneta -- Money laundering -- Moneylending -- Moneyless societies -- Money pit -- George T. Morgan -- Sir Henry Morgan -- Robert Morris -- Muhammad ibn Tughluq -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Emanuel Ninger -- Numismatics -- Oban -- Obolus -- Offa of Mercia -- Nicolas Oresme -- Palemon -- Pantograph -- Papal coins -- Paper money -- Anthony C. Paquet -- William Paterson -- Patio process -- Robert Maskell Patterson -- Pasion of Archarnae -- Patching hoard -- Peace dollar -- Penny -- Samuel Pepys -- Jacob Perkins -- Peso -- Peter\2019s pence -- Peter I -- -- Sir William Petty -- Pfennig -- Philip IV of France -- Pieces of eight -- Piracy -- Pistareen -- Benedetto Pistrucci -- Plate money -- Portrait coins -- Postage currency -- Potin -- Bela Lyon Pratt -- Quetzal -- Mary Read -- Redfield hoard -- Templeton Reid -- Renaissance coins -- Ring & bullet money -- Rix dollars -- John Roettiers -- Roman coins during the monarchy and republic -- Roman coins during the empire -- Royal Exchange -- Russian money -- Sacagawea coin -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- St. Patrick coppers -- Salt money -- Heinrich Schliemann -- Scottish coins -- Screw press -- Scrip -- Scyphate coins -- Sealstones -- Duke Galeazzo Sforza -- Shekel -- Shell money -- Shilling -- Shipwrecks -- Siege money -- Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol -- Silver strikes -- Thomas Simon Sixpence -- Sou
- South Sea bubble -- Spanish coins -- Spirit money -- Sterling -- Stone money -- Franz Seraph Streber -- Susan B. Anthony dollar -- Talent -- Tally -- Johann Sigismund Tanner -- Thaler -- Peter Throckmorton -- Tokens -- Tongs -- Tooth money -- Touch coins -- Touchstone -- Trade and barter -- Treasure Island -- Treasure ships -- Tregwynt hoard -- Trial by the pyx -- Roderigo de Triana -- Tughra -- Tympf -- Underwater archeology -- U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- U.S. coins -- U.S. Mint -- U.S. Secret Service -- U.S. Treasury -- Jean Varin -- Wampum -- Adolph A. Weinman -- Wells Fargo -- Whydah -- William the conqueror -- Wizard of Oz -- World currency -- Charles Cushing Wright -- Joseph Wright -- Wu-Ti -- Wyon family -- Time line of coins and currency in history -- Glossary
- Label
- Coins and currency : an historical encyclopedia
- Title
- Coins and currency
- Title remainder
- an historical encyclopedia
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Ellen Snodgrass
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Providing more than 250 alphabetical entries, this encyclopedia provides historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts, and following the developments of money through such varied forms as beaver skins and sea salt blocks. The cross-referenced entries include stories of particular coins, engravers, biblical references, counterfeiters, assay and mintmarks, shipwrecks, monetary slang, and essays on the creation of the U.S. monetary system by famous historical figures. For readers interested in sociological aspects of monetary exchange, the book touches on blood money, gold rushes, Wells Fargo, the gold standard, hoarding, and Fibonacci's democratization of the number system
- Cataloging source
- YDXCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Snodgrass, Mary Ellen
- Dewey number
- 737
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- CJ
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Coins
- Money
- Coins
- Money
- Label
- Coins and currency : an historical encyclopedia, Mary Ellen Snodgrass
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-533) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
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- Admiral Gardner -- African money -- Alexius I Comnenus -- Al-Kwarizmi -- American eagle -- Amulet coins -- Anglo-Saxon coins -- Appledore hoard -- Assay marks -- Assignat -- Athelstan -- Atocha -- Joseph Alexis Bailly -- Banking -- Bank of England -- Charles Edward Barber -- William Barber -- William Barber -- Bas-relief -- George Bass -- Christoph Bechtler -- Bezant -- Bible currency -- Bimetallism -- Blackbeard -- Blood money -- Anne Bonny -- Matthew Boulton -- Bracteate -- Donato Bramante -- Ephraim Brasher -- Victor D. Brenner -- Brinks robberies -- Nicholas Briot -- William Jennings Bryan -- Abel Buell -- Adolf Burger -- Dr. Selma Burke -- Byzantine coins -- Canadian money -- Canute I -- La Capitana -- Caradosso -- Carausius -- Catherine II -- Benvenuto Cellini -- Celtic coins -- Central America -- Chinese money -- L.M. Cark -- Cloth and fiber money -- Cobs -- Cocoa bean money -- Coconut money -- Coinage -- Coin clipping and shaving -- Coin collectors -- Coins & currency in art -- Coins & currency in drama and film -- Coins and currency in literature -- Colonial coins -- Commemorative issue -- Confederate money -- Continental currency -- Counterfeiting -- Counterstamp -- Cowrie -- Credit card fraud -- Daric -- Anthony de Francisci -- Denga -- Denier -- Dinar -- Dirhan -- Dollar -- Dollar diplomacy -- Drachma -- Sir Francis Drake -- Drum money -- Ducat -- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel -- Ecu -- Edward the Confessor
- Egbert -- Egyptian coins -- Elephant token -- St. Eligius -- English money -- E pluribus unum -- Escudo -- Euro -- Exchequer -- Feather money -- Fiat money -- Leonardo Fibonacci -- 50 state quarters -- Filthy lucre -- Mel Fisher -- Fishhook money -- Florin -- Food stamps -- Forint -- Fort Knox -- Franc -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Earle Fraser -- Frederick the Great -- Fur money -- Percy Gardner -- Frank Gasparro -- Charles Gibbs -- Giro system -- Christian Gobrecht -- Gold dust -- Gold rush -- Gold standard -- Humertus Goltzius -- Georg Heinrich, Baron von Gortz -- Great Seal of the United States -- Greek coins -- Greenbacks -- Thomas Gresham -- Gresham\2019s Law -- Groat -- Gros -- Gros Tournois -- Guinea -- Gulden -- Hallmark -- Alexander Hamilton -- Piet Heyn -- Hibernia coppers -- Sir George Hill -- Hoarding -- Hogge money -- John Hull -- Hunley -- William Hunter -- Ieyasu -- Incuse -- Indent -- Money of India -- In God We Trust -- Inscriptions -- Interpol -- Irish money -- Islamic money -- Japanese money -- Thomas Jefferson -- John the Good -- Captain William Kidd -- Klippe -- Knights Hospitallers -- Knights Templar -- Krugerrand -- Larin -- John Law -- Leather & hide money -- Leone Leoni -- Joseph Lesher -- Lion dollar -- Lira -- James Barton Longacre -- Lydian coins -- Macedonian coins -- Thomas Machin -- Hermon Atkins MacNeil -- Mammon -- Manilla -- March of Dimes -- Mark -- Markka -- Maundy money
- Hugh McCulloch -- Medieval coins -- Mercury dime -- Mint mark -- Gaspare Molo -- Moneta -- Money laundering -- Moneylending -- Moneyless societies -- Money pit -- George T. Morgan -- Sir Henry Morgan -- Robert Morris -- Muhammad ibn Tughluq -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Emanuel Ninger -- Numismatics -- Oban -- Obolus -- Offa of Mercia -- Nicolas Oresme -- Palemon -- Pantograph -- Papal coins -- Paper money -- Anthony C. Paquet -- William Paterson -- Patio process -- Robert Maskell Patterson -- Pasion of Archarnae -- Patching hoard -- Peace dollar -- Penny -- Samuel Pepys -- Jacob Perkins -- Peso -- Peter\2019s pence -- Peter I -- -- Sir William Petty -- Pfennig -- Philip IV of France -- Pieces of eight -- Piracy -- Pistareen -- Benedetto Pistrucci -- Plate money -- Portrait coins -- Postage currency -- Potin -- Bela Lyon Pratt -- Quetzal -- Mary Read -- Redfield hoard -- Templeton Reid -- Renaissance coins -- Ring & bullet money -- Rix dollars -- John Roettiers -- Roman coins during the monarchy and republic -- Roman coins during the empire -- Royal Exchange -- Russian money -- Sacagawea coin -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- St. Patrick coppers -- Salt money -- Heinrich Schliemann -- Scottish coins -- Screw press -- Scrip -- Scyphate coins -- Sealstones -- Duke Galeazzo Sforza -- Shekel -- Shell money -- Shilling -- Shipwrecks -- Siege money -- Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol -- Silver strikes -- Thomas Simon Sixpence -- Sou
- South Sea bubble -- Spanish coins -- Spirit money -- Sterling -- Stone money -- Franz Seraph Streber -- Susan B. Anthony dollar -- Talent -- Tally -- Johann Sigismund Tanner -- Thaler -- Peter Throckmorton -- Tokens -- Tongs -- Tooth money -- Touch coins -- Touchstone -- Trade and barter -- Treasure Island -- Treasure ships -- Tregwynt hoard -- Trial by the pyx -- Roderigo de Triana -- Tughra -- Tympf -- Underwater archeology -- U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- U.S. coins -- U.S. Mint -- U.S. Secret Service -- U.S. Treasury -- Jean Varin -- Wampum -- Adolph A. Weinman -- Wells Fargo -- Whydah -- William the conqueror -- Wizard of Oz -- World currency -- Charles Cushing Wright -- Joseph Wright -- Wu-Ti -- Wyon family -- Time line of coins and currency in history -- Glossary
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 562 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029288318
- Label
- Coins and currency : an historical encyclopedia, Mary Ellen Snodgrass
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-533) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Admiral Gardner -- African money -- Alexius I Comnenus -- Al-Kwarizmi -- American eagle -- Amulet coins -- Anglo-Saxon coins -- Appledore hoard -- Assay marks -- Assignat -- Athelstan -- Atocha -- Joseph Alexis Bailly -- Banking -- Bank of England -- Charles Edward Barber -- William Barber -- William Barber -- Bas-relief -- George Bass -- Christoph Bechtler -- Bezant -- Bible currency -- Bimetallism -- Blackbeard -- Blood money -- Anne Bonny -- Matthew Boulton -- Bracteate -- Donato Bramante -- Ephraim Brasher -- Victor D. Brenner -- Brinks robberies -- Nicholas Briot -- William Jennings Bryan -- Abel Buell -- Adolf Burger -- Dr. Selma Burke -- Byzantine coins -- Canadian money -- Canute I -- La Capitana -- Caradosso -- Carausius -- Catherine II -- Benvenuto Cellini -- Celtic coins -- Central America -- Chinese money -- L.M. Cark -- Cloth and fiber money -- Cobs -- Cocoa bean money -- Coconut money -- Coinage -- Coin clipping and shaving -- Coin collectors -- Coins & currency in art -- Coins & currency in drama and film -- Coins and currency in literature -- Colonial coins -- Commemorative issue -- Confederate money -- Continental currency -- Counterfeiting -- Counterstamp -- Cowrie -- Credit card fraud -- Daric -- Anthony de Francisci -- Denga -- Denier -- Dinar -- Dirhan -- Dollar -- Dollar diplomacy -- Drachma -- Sir Francis Drake -- Drum money -- Ducat -- Joseph Hilarius Eckhel -- Ecu -- Edward the Confessor
- Egbert -- Egyptian coins -- Elephant token -- St. Eligius -- English money -- E pluribus unum -- Escudo -- Euro -- Exchequer -- Feather money -- Fiat money -- Leonardo Fibonacci -- 50 state quarters -- Filthy lucre -- Mel Fisher -- Fishhook money -- Florin -- Food stamps -- Forint -- Fort Knox -- Franc -- Benjamin Franklin -- James Earle Fraser -- Frederick the Great -- Fur money -- Percy Gardner -- Frank Gasparro -- Charles Gibbs -- Giro system -- Christian Gobrecht -- Gold dust -- Gold rush -- Gold standard -- Humertus Goltzius -- Georg Heinrich, Baron von Gortz -- Great Seal of the United States -- Greek coins -- Greenbacks -- Thomas Gresham -- Gresham\2019s Law -- Groat -- Gros -- Gros Tournois -- Guinea -- Gulden -- Hallmark -- Alexander Hamilton -- Piet Heyn -- Hibernia coppers -- Sir George Hill -- Hoarding -- Hogge money -- John Hull -- Hunley -- William Hunter -- Ieyasu -- Incuse -- Indent -- Money of India -- In God We Trust -- Inscriptions -- Interpol -- Irish money -- Islamic money -- Japanese money -- Thomas Jefferson -- John the Good -- Captain William Kidd -- Klippe -- Knights Hospitallers -- Knights Templar -- Krugerrand -- Larin -- John Law -- Leather & hide money -- Leone Leoni -- Joseph Lesher -- Lion dollar -- Lira -- James Barton Longacre -- Lydian coins -- Macedonian coins -- Thomas Machin -- Hermon Atkins MacNeil -- Mammon -- Manilla -- March of Dimes -- Mark -- Markka -- Maundy money
- Hugh McCulloch -- Medieval coins -- Mercury dime -- Mint mark -- Gaspare Molo -- Moneta -- Money laundering -- Moneylending -- Moneyless societies -- Money pit -- George T. Morgan -- Sir Henry Morgan -- Robert Morris -- Muhammad ibn Tughluq -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Emanuel Ninger -- Numismatics -- Oban -- Obolus -- Offa of Mercia -- Nicolas Oresme -- Palemon -- Pantograph -- Papal coins -- Paper money -- Anthony C. Paquet -- William Paterson -- Patio process -- Robert Maskell Patterson -- Pasion of Archarnae -- Patching hoard -- Peace dollar -- Penny -- Samuel Pepys -- Jacob Perkins -- Peso -- Peter\2019s pence -- Peter I -- -- Sir William Petty -- Pfennig -- Philip IV of France -- Pieces of eight -- Piracy -- Pistareen -- Benedetto Pistrucci -- Plate money -- Portrait coins -- Postage currency -- Potin -- Bela Lyon Pratt -- Quetzal -- Mary Read -- Redfield hoard -- Templeton Reid -- Renaissance coins -- Ring & bullet money -- Rix dollars -- John Roettiers -- Roman coins during the monarchy and republic -- Roman coins during the empire -- Royal Exchange -- Russian money -- Sacagawea coin -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens -- St. Patrick coppers -- Salt money -- Heinrich Schliemann -- Scottish coins -- Screw press -- Scrip -- Scyphate coins -- Sealstones -- Duke Galeazzo Sforza -- Shekel -- Shell money -- Shilling -- Shipwrecks -- Siege money -- Sigismund, Archduke of Tyrol -- Silver strikes -- Thomas Simon Sixpence -- Sou
- South Sea bubble -- Spanish coins -- Spirit money -- Sterling -- Stone money -- Franz Seraph Streber -- Susan B. Anthony dollar -- Talent -- Tally -- Johann Sigismund Tanner -- Thaler -- Peter Throckmorton -- Tokens -- Tongs -- Tooth money -- Touch coins -- Touchstone -- Trade and barter -- Treasure Island -- Treasure ships -- Tregwynt hoard -- Trial by the pyx -- Roderigo de Triana -- Tughra -- Tympf -- Underwater archeology -- U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing -- U.S. coins -- U.S. Mint -- U.S. Secret Service -- U.S. Treasury -- Jean Varin -- Wampum -- Adolph A. Weinman -- Wells Fargo -- Whydah -- William the conqueror -- Wizard of Oz -- World currency -- Charles Cushing Wright -- Joseph Wright -- Wu-Ti -- Wyon family -- Time line of coins and currency in history -- Glossary
- Extent
- 1 online resource (xii, 562 pages
- Form of item
- online
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1029288318
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