1st Edition
A Survey of Primitive Money The Beginnings of Currency
By A. Hingston Quiggin
Copyright 1949
404 Pages
by
Routledge
404 Pages
by
Routledge
406 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
A. Hingston Quiggin
