John Craig: The Mint | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780521170772 | The Mint | A History of the London Mint from A.D. 287 to 1948 | Craig

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Beschreibung

For an august and important institution of the realm, whose activities concern every citizen so constantly and continuously, is it not surprising how little every citizen knows of the London Mint in detail? In this 1953 book its story up until the 1950s is told with unimpeachable authority by Sir John Craig, former Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint and Engraver of the King's Seals. Any reader may follow the chronology of the Mint, from the many crude workshops of the early days to the central, nationally recognised organisation with statutory safeguards that it has become. Here they may read of those who influenced the growth and policy of the Mint, watch the development of monetary theory, as well as the changes in technical processes of coin making, and the gradual evolution of statutory control. The whole work is illustrated from the archives of the Mint.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2010
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521170772
ISBN-10:	052117077X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Craig, John
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 29 mm
Von/Mit:	John Craig
Erscheinungsdatum:	17.11.2010
Gewicht:	0,801 kg