Money supplies
- Author(s)
- Sebastian Felten
- Abstract
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 historyand historyofscience:the work of assayers and mint officials, where antiquarian and commercial interests merged.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of History
- Journal
- Isis. An International Review Devoted to the History of Science and its Cultural Influences
- Volume
- 114
- Pages
- 387-392
- No. of pages
- 6
- ISSN
- 0021-1753
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1086/724798
- Publication date
- 06-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 603123 History of science, 502049 Economic history
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History, History and Philosophy of Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/money-supplies(22848f23-85d9-408f-ad5c-73d4934dfe0d).html