Author: RIDGEWAY, WILLIAM
Title: The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards
Description: England: Cambridge at the University Press, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. 417 pages. Index. Appendices. Footnotes. List of sixty black and white illustrations. A rare surviving copy of this important reference, made all the more engaging by today's environment of competing fiat currency devaluations. "Hitherto Numismatists when stydying the Origines of Coinage had confined themselves to the materials presented to them in the earliest money of Lydia, Greece and Italy, and on the other hand the Metrologists had almost completely limited their range of observation to the systems of Babylon, Egypt, Greece and Rome. As the Comparative Method has yielded such excellent results in the study of other human institutions, I have endeavoured by its aid to get some new principles which may throw some fresh light on the first beginnings of monetary and weight systems." - from Preface. Attractive gilt decoration upon green front board. Legible gilt lettering upon backstrip. Average external soiling and wear. Several chips from and lengthy openings along backstrip which has become brittle with age. Narrow opening along most of front hinge. Back hinge open. Bookplate discretely removed inside front board. Unmarked. A tender but worthy copy.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight Standards Coinage Dollar Precious Metals copper Silver Gold Rejects the orthodox view that Greek coins developed from a religious beginning, and that many objects once thought of as items involved in ritual and. Fair .

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