Coins, medals, and seals, ancient and modern. Illustrated and described. With a sketch of the history of coins and coinage, instructions for young collectors, tables of comparative rarity, price lists of English and American coins, medals and tokens, &c., &c (1861)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 28
^ears.When metals became standards of value can not be affirmedprecisely, but it is evident that at this time, and for many cen-turies afterward, they were not coined into what we call money.The evidence, however, that the price of cattle was the earliestmethod of fixing the value of money, and…
Numismatics · Medals · Seals (Numismatics)
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