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Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821 George Selgin
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Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821
George Selgin
In the 1780s, the Royal Mint failed to produce enough small-denomination coinage. As the currency shortage threatened to derail industrial progress, manufacturers began to mint custom-made coins, called 'tradesman's tokens'. In 1821, the Crown outlawed all moneys except its own. This book tells of the struggles over the right to coin legal money.
400 pages, 16 page colour gallery
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 1, 2008 |
| ISBN13 | 9780472116317 |
| Publishers | The University of Michigan Press |
| Pages | 400 |
| Dimensions | 235 × 163 × 36 mm · 732 g |
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