Money Supplies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4175293 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sebastian Felten (0000-0002-8194-4112, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 114 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 387-392 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Isis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-1753 • E-ISSN: 1545-6994 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/724798 |
| OpenAlex | W4376869978 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
From the spread of silver as commodity money in the early modern world to mass-produced national currency in the nineteenth century, coins had a dual nature. They supplied facts about the past when they were investigated by antiquarians, and they required knowledge of materials and their supply when used as currency. This essay explores a little-researched borderland between economic history and history of science: the work of assayers and mint officials, where antiquarian and commercial interests merged
Art · Commerce · Commodity · Currency · Dual (grammatical number · Economic history · Economics · Economy · History of science · Literature · Market economy · Monetary economics · Monetary policy · Money supply · Work (physics · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |