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This paper focuses on privately issued currencies by women in mid-17th century London. These currencies appeared across England as part of a large wave of minting which began during the English Civil War as a result of severe shortages of low value coina
Classic work in monetary history published in the throes of the Great Depression. A unique text in that it focuses exclusively on currency in the first century of the colonial experience, whereas most other works focus chiefly on the 18th century. Thoroughly researched, the book is also an exce...
Spain's powerful world empire of the 16th and 17th centuries ultimately yielded command of the seas to England. Subsequent failure to embrace the mercantile and industrial revolutions caused the country to fall behind Britain, France, and Germany in economic and political power. Spain remained neutra...
The State of Poyais was one of the largest scams of the 19th Century. Scottish soldier and adventurer Gregor MacGregor showed up in London in 1821 claiming to be the Cacique (Prince) of Poyais. Poyais is located on the Mosquito Coast of what is now Honduras. He created numerous documents...
The word ringgit means "jagged" in Malay and was originally used to refer to the serrated edges of silver Spanish dollars which circulated widely in the area during the 16th and 17th century Portuguese colonial era. The Singapore dollar and the Brunei dollar are also called ringgit in Malay ...
to the Constitutional Convention to prohibit states from emitting bills of credit, so that nothing other than gold and silver coin could be legal tender in payment of debts, thus setting the stage for a new and further contested era of American currency and finance in the 19th century.doi...
In the early modern times,with silver discovered in America and the development of Macao s foreign trade,large amount of silver flowed in to China,which produced positive effect on China of 16th through 17th century in many aspects such as commodity economy further developed,taxation institution re...
2.In the early modern times,with silver discovered in America and the development of Macao s foreign trade,large amount of silver flowed in to China,which produced positive effect on China of 16th through 17th century in many aspects such as commodity economy further developed,taxation institution...
In the early modern times,with silver discovered in America and the development of Macao s foreign trade,large amount of silver flowed in to China,which produced positive effect on China of 16th through 17th century in many aspects such as commodity economy further developed,taxation institution re...