Coins in HistoryA history of coins and coinage to money and the light which the study of coins can throw upon some of the problems of economic history, these are a few of the subjects which are examined in this richly illustrated book. |
Contents
The Imperial Foundations | 8 |
Byzantium and Islam | 23 |
Coinage in the Barbarian | 40 |
Copyright | |
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