The Mint: A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948
Autor John Craigen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 oct 2011
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780521170772
ISBN-10: 052117077X
Pagini: 498
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 052117077X
Pagini: 498
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.72 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cuprins
List of illustrations; Table of sovereigns; Introduction; 1. Early mints; 2. Concentration in London; 3. Shaping the tower mint; 4. The return of gold; 5. End of the Middle Ages; 6. Renaissance and debasement; 7. Elizabeth I; 8. Court and commonwealth; 9. Mechanization of the mint; 10. Guineas and coppers; 11. The Great Silver Recoinage; 12. Isaac Newton; 13. The age of deputies; 14. Later eighteenth-century coinage; 15. Under the committee on coin; 16. William Wellesley Pole; 17. Cabinet masters; 18. Two masters of science; 19. Growth of the modern mint; 20. Modern British coinage; 21. Ireland; 22. Other external coinages; 23. Trial of the Pyx; The appendices; Bibliography; Subject index; Index of the persons, with their mint connections.
Descriere
In this 1953 book the story of the London Mint is told by the former Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint.