Heads & Tales: The Rise and Demise of Coins

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Book Information

Release date 07-2025
Format Paperback with flaps
Pages 246
ISBN 9781923267404
ISBN10 192326740X
Width (mm) 210
Length (mm) 230
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SKU: 949 Categories: ,

Description

For some 2700 years we have used them to pay our debts and claim our dues. We have minted trillions of the little metal discs. Even the invention of paper money hardly slowed their proliferation. Indeed, coins made of gold continued to underpin the finances of the world until the twentieth century, but from that
eminence the descent has been precipitous. It is safe to predict that sometime in our century coins
will cease to circulate as currency. Our pockets will be the lighter but so will our connection to the past. We will have dispensed with something which for half of recorded history has preserved in hard copy, sometimes uniquely, an account of our doings. We should at least say goodbye.

This book is a valedictory survey. It follows the story of coins from conception through substance to shadow. Presenting on average a tale for each generation since the beginning, it celebrates the rise and chronicles the demise of a remarkable invention.

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Dimensions 246 × 189 cm

Author information

Granville Allen Mawer

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