Coins, Banknotes, Medals, Seals (Numismatics)

By far the most common coins found by metal detectorists are the Romano-British copies of the third and fourth centuries. They are often described ...

This book focuses on the formative period of Church reform in the Middle Ages in Northern Europe, when the Church paved the way for the development...

Originally written in 1905, this volume examines the coins of Japan, especially appealing because of a subtle and impersonal charm which pervades t...

The late 12th and 13th centuries witnessed complete national recoinages in 1180, 1247 and 1279, with the entire national stock of money reminted. A...

This historic reference work for British coins is still the only catalogue to feature every major coin type from Celtic to the Decimal coinage of K...

Coins of England and the United Kingdom Pre-Decimal and Decimal volumes comprise the Standard Catalogue of British Coins. This 11th edition of the ...

Money provides a unique and illuminating perspective on the Middle Ages. In much of medieval Europe the central meaning of money was a prescribed u...

In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silve...

The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services,...

Bracketed by global financial crises and economic downturns, the modern age has been defined by debates about, and transformations of, money. The p...

The Enlightenment was a time of monetary turmoil and transformation in Europe. Change began with a riot of experimentation, including novel ideas a...

The nineteenth century was a time of intense monetization of social life: increasingly money became the only means of access to goods and services,...