Money
Subtitle: A History
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312212124
Subjects: Coins, Currency & Medals; Money & Monetary Policy; World; World - General; History / General; Reference; History; History - General History; Money; Business/Economics
First sentence: The earliest-known records of one very important strand in the history of money, broadly characterised by the monetary use of precious metals, can be traced back to the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt.