The Coin Book: Comprising a History of Coinage; A Synopsis of the Mint Laws of the United States; Statistics of the Coinage From 1792 to 1870; List of ... Their Custom House Values (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Homans, Isaac Smith

9781331712138: The Coin Book: Comprising a History of Coinage; A Synopsis of the Mint Laws of the United States; Statistics of the Coinage From 1792 to 1870; List of ... Their Custom House Values (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Coin Book: Comprising a History of Coinage; A Synopsis of the Mint Laws of the United States; Statistics of the Coinage From 1792 to 1870; List of Current Gold and Silver Coins, and Their Custom House Values

An inquiry, therefore, into the coinage of a country like great britain, from the earliest times, possesses an interest apart from the subject itself as a mere antiquarian research, because it throws an indirect ray of light on the social condition of the people from age to age, and enables us to note the progressive steps of their improve ment in taste, refinement, and mechanical invention, as well as to ascertain their comparative wealth and social comfort, indicated by the value of the necessary articles of life. The subject partakes not, indeed, of the true dignity and importance of history; but, in a less ambitious channel of research, it is not without utility and instruction.

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Excerpt from The Coin Book: Comprising a History of Coinage; A Synopsis of the Mint Laws of the United States; Statistics of the Coinage From 1792 to 1870; List of Current Gold and Silver Coins, and Their Custom House Values; A Dictionary of All Coins Known in Ancient and Modern Tim

Money is a measure of value and medium of exchange: coinage is the art of fabricating money.

So soon as nations emerge from a state of barbarism, when simple barter no longer suffices to meet their wants, they will invent some common or conventional measure of value by which to exchange their products and carry on their commerce. In the rude ages of society, cattle are said to have been the common medium of commerce; and among the patriarchs of old they were the measure of mans wealth and greatness. The armor of Diomede, says Homer, cost only nine oxen; but that of Glaucus cost a hundred oxen. In some countries, in former times, salt was the measure of value and instrument of exchange; and in others shells formed the circulating medium.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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