Coins of the World

Richard Doty

BANTAM BOOKS

Money of the World

Hale

Everyone knows that there is only one form of American currency, the product of a single issuer. That currency is the greenback, and the issuer is the federal government. But this arrangement has not always been the rule: for much of our nation's history (including its most dynamic period of growth) there was no federal currency in circulation. Instead, Americans spent currency issued by private banks and other businesses. We call these pieces of private money obsolete bank notes, and they form the basis of this outstanding new book by Richard Doty, senior curator of the Smithsonian's National Numismatic Collection. What do the designs and images on these notes tell us about the United States of the 1800s? How did we Americans view women, children, family, the workplace, racial minorities, new technology? Can these obsolete bank notes serve as "pictures from a distant country"-snapshots from the United States of yesteryear? Hundreds of detailed images of these private notes illustrate Doty's engaging text. Pictures From a Distant Country is a must-read for every collector, and for anyone interested in our nation's colorful past. <ul>
<li>Foreword </li> <li>Preface </li> <li>Introduction </li> <li>Chapter 1. Constructing a National Identity </li> <li>Chapter 2. The People in the Way </li> <li>Chapter 3. The People in the Middle </li> <li>Chapter 4. Temptress, Saint, and Helpmeet: Woman's Identity </li> <li>Chapter 5. Childhood and Family </li> <li>Chapter 6. Making a Living </li> <li>Chapter 7. Whimsy </li> <li>Chapter 8. "You Can Trust Me": Images of Worth </li> <li>Chapter 9. Progress </li> <li>Chapter 10. . . . An Age Now Ending </li> <li>Epilogue: And Then What Happened? </li> <li>Appendix: Full-Size Bank-Note Images </li> <li>About the Author / Acknowledgments </li> <li>Index to Bank-Note Issuers, by State </li> </ul>

Pictures From a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Old Paper Money

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Whitman Publishing, LLC

This book is new!! This book is new!! This is the first full-length treatment of the world's first pioneering industrial coiner. The rise of the Soho Mint coincided with the rise of the British Industrial Revolution. The first stirrings of the new economic times created a rapidly-growing need for coinage, especially copper coinage. Counterfeiters rose to the challenge: by the late 1780's, the great majority of 'small money' in circulation was spurious. In time, this condition might jeopardize the future of the Industrial Revolution itself: if the wages paid were suspect, who would come to work in the new factories Matthew Boulton and his associates at Soho Manufactory met and defeated this threat by creating a battery of steam-powered machines which could mass-produce unforgeable copper coinage. The earnings of the labouring poor were safeguarded; the world's first industrial coiner was born. But Matthew Boulton did not stop there. He and his successors sent coins and tokens around the world, from India to Chile, from Canada to Australia. And their activities were soon taking a logical but crucial new identity; from exporting coins, Soho would export mints, steam-powered replicas of itself, so that the rest of the world could take advantage of Soho's new technology. In so doing, the modern coin was created: every piece of money in our pockets bears direct testimony of the work of Matthew Boulton, of Soho, near Birmingham. 

Soho Mint and the Industrialization of Money

Business & Money

Economics

Spink & Son, Ltd.

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