Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with Special Reference to the Low Countries and England
- 2 From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies
- 3 The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and its Offspring, 1284–2001
- 4 Debasement of the Coinage and its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: in England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s
- 5 The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of ‘Bank Money’
- 6 Silver in England 1600–1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths
- 7 The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon
- 8 Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- 9 Cacao Beans in Colonial México: Small Change in a Global Economy
- 10 Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c. 1200–1575
- Notes
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with Special Reference to the Low Countries and England
- 2 From Aurelian to Diocletian: Financing Imperial Recovery by Coinage Debasements and Fiduciary Currencies
- 3 The Making of a Gold Standard: The Ducat and its Offspring, 1284–2001
- 4 Debasement of the Coinage and its Effects on Exchange Rates and the Economy: in England in the 1540s, and in the Burgundian-Habsburg Netherlands in the 1480s
- 5 The Amsterdam Wisselbank's Innovations in the Monetary Sphere: The Role of ‘Bank Money’
- 6 Silver in England 1600–1800: Coinage Outputs and Bullion Exports from the Records of the London Tower Mint and the London Company of Goldsmiths
- 7 The Burdens of Tradition: Debasements, Coinage Circulation and Mercantilist Public Policy Debates in Seventeenth-Century Aragon
- 8 Money or Export Commodity for Asia? American Silver in the Markets of Mexico, Castile and Amsterdam from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
- 9 Cacao Beans in Colonial México: Small Change in a Global Economy
- 10 Precious Metals, Debasements and Cowrie Shells in the Medieval Indian Monetary Systems, c. 1200–1575
- Notes
- Index
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- Money in the Pre-Industrial WorldBullion, Debasements and Coin Substitutes, pp. 217 - 225Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014