American Silver Eagles: A Guide to the U.S. Bullion Coin Program
More than 600 million American Silver Eagles have been sold since 1986, making them the most popular bullion coins in the history of the United States. The coins are treasured by collectors and investors around the world. In American Silver ...
The Banknote Book Volume 1
This is the first edition of a completely new reference work on World Banknotes containing detailed information, full colour images, accurate valuations and additional bibliographies for 203 countries, published in three volumes.
Strike It Rich with Pocket Change
In the authors' own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change. More than 350 ...
Handb United States Coins 2024: The Official Blue Book
Whitman Publishing debuted the Handbook of United States Coins in 1942. It was the first unbiased, authoritative resource showing how much coin dealers were paying on average to buy U.S. coins by type, date, and mintmark.The groundbreakin...
Coins in Churches
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 of money economy on its own doorstep. Church archaeology provides evidence for patterns of monetary...
How Writing Came About
Top 100 Books on Science, American Scientist, 2001 In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise ...
Coin Collecting For Dummies
Discover a new hobby-or refine your existing techniques-with this practical coin collecting handbook In Coin Collecting For Dummies, professional rare coin dealer Neil Berman delivers a hands-on and fun guide to the intriguing hobby of numismatics...
Cast Chinese Amulets
For over 2,000 years, the Chinese have been producing amulets in the shape of flat metal objects, usually cast in brass or bronze, some shaped like the traditional square-holed cash coins, others in a variety of fancy shapes, promising good luck in various fields, the turning away of evil influences, or conveying religious sentiments. Some have inscriptions taken from the Classics of 500 BC. Previously, catalogues of these amulets were arranged in various different ways - by shape, size, meaning, Emperor's name, or a common feature. However, this made it difficult to locate a particular piece - it would not be immediately clear to a non-expert whether a piece was 'Lucky', 'Religious', 'Family' or 'Coin'. This catalogue is designed for ease of identification. It is divided into four sections - Openwork, Pictorial, Zodiac, and Inscriptions. Preceding the detailed catalogue for each section is a Finding Guide which is arranged by salient features, or by the first character of the
PI Gaming Pieces
Pi are small porcelain tokens made in China for the gambling houses of Siam in the 19th century. They were sometimes used as small change in the neighbourhoods in which they were issued.. They come in a large variety of shapes and colours. They are mostly inscribed in Chinese, but occasionally in Siamese. Inscriptions can vary between simply the name of the gambling house to extracts from classical Chinese poetry. This catalogue illustrates, in colour, about 1800 of these tokens, with a full translation and explanation of their inscriptions and iconography.
Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect 1700-1850
Coins from the 18th and early 19th centuries are physically and visually intriguing. In addition to their monetary uses, they were repurposed to communicate private and public messages - from ad hoc scratchings and punch marks to full-scale re-eng...
Coin Finds in Britain
Over the centuries Britain's soil has yielded countless spectacular hoards of ancient coins and other artefacts, affording us priceless insights into our ancestors' lives - and it is not only such large finds that await discovery but also many tho...
Sylloge of Islamic Coins in the Ashmolean: v. 6
This volume contains nearly 1600 coins of the 9th-16th centuries from North Africa to Great Syria. The collections included in the catalogue are those of the Heberden Coin Room and the Shamma Collection. Unlike previous SICA volumes, the coins are...
Cast Chinese Coins: Second Edition
First published in 2005, this catalogue has become the standard reference work for cast Chinese coins. It covers both the early spade and knife coins that were used from around 600 BC and the square holed 'cash' coins that were the coinage of China from the 4th century BC until the end of the Empire in the 20th century. Special attention is given to the red copper coins of Xinjiang. As well as the catalogue, there is copious background information concerning the use and manufacture of these coins, and numerous charts, maps, and tables to help both the expert and the novice to identify their coins.The second edition has been extensively edited, and contains some new coins and sections.Awarded the Lhotka Prize by the Royal Numismatic Society.
Money in the Western Legal Tradition
Monetary law is essential to the functioning of private transactions and international dealings by the state: nearly every legal transaction has a monetary aspect. Money in the Western Legal Tradition presents the first comprehensive analysis of W...
Sveriges kungliga medaljer Gustav Vasa-Karl XV
Sveriges kungliga medaljer Gustav Vasa-Karl XV är den första boken som utgivits sedan 1874/1875 då Bror Emil Hildebrands episka verk över Sveriges kungliga medaljer publicerades. Nu, för första gången någonsin finns en uppföljare, uppställd efter ...
Gunnar Holsts Stiftelse För Numismatik - 1991-2015
Bengt Holmén beskriver verksamheten i Gunnar Holsts Stiftelse för Numismatik. Utdelandet av Gunnar Holstmedaljen har lockat framstående numismatiker till Göteborg från hela världen. Boken presenterar alla pristagarna och de aktiviteter som genomförts under de 25 verksamhetsåren.
Skatter i Skåneland
Denna bok är avsedd att vara en vägledning och fördjupning till utställningen Skatter i Skåneland. Boken innehåller dels en kronologisk översikt över såväl det historiska som det numismatiska skeendet i Skåneland under den tid när man där präglade mynt, och dels spännande historier kring de myntfynd som visas i utställningen. Tanken är att boken skall vara besökaren till nytta i utställningen men också utgöra en spännande läsning efter hemkomsten.