A Survey of Primitive Money: The Beginnings of Currency

by A. Hingston Quiggin

Overview

This book, first published in 1949, is the original and key survey of the stages which preceded the use of coins as the medium of exchange, and of the objects that coins displaced, objects which for want of a better name are here called primitive money. It examines in detail the primitive monies of the world, monies from far in the distant past, and monies still in use today. It is the essential reference source on the many different objects used as currency.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138069190
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/2019
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: History of Money, Banking and Finance , #1
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Definitions 2. Pre-Currency Stages 3. Classification 4. Cowries and Beads 5. Africa 6. Oceania 7. Asia 8. Europe 9. America and the West Indies