Author: Harley J. Spiller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Keep the Change
Author: Harley J. Spiller
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1616894199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Harley J. Spiller began collecting money at the age of five when, home sick from school, his father tossed him a sack of pennies and a Whitman coin folder. In the five decades since, author Spiller has amassed one of America's most extensive collections of unusual financial artifacts as well as a wealth of anecdotes and quirky historical details about U.S. currency. In Keep the Change, Spiller takes an irreverent look at our most uncommon coins and bills. Readers learn why greenbacks are green; what happens to worn-out bills (compost is involved); how artists navigate the fine line between art and mutilation; whether it's ever acceptable to burn money (short answer: maybe); and how coin clippers and counterfeiters through the ages have profited by manipulating money. This highly selective tour through currency legends and lore will inspire readers to look with a new sense of wonder at the bills that pass through our hands every day.
A Memorial Discourse
Author: Henry Highland Garnet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Abolitionists
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Confident Carson City Coin Collector
Author: Rusty Goe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974616940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974616940
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 2500
Book Description
Rusty Goe's new three-volume set, The Confident Carson City Coin Collector, provides a time-capsule glimpse of all the knowledge available for discovery about the Carson City Mint's history and the coins that have survived from that place leading up to the 150th anniversary (2020) of the mint's opening in January 1870. Just about anything anyone would want to know about the mint and its coins can be found in these three volumes. Three hardback volumes, 8.5" x 11" in dimensions. The page count for all three volumes is approximately 2,500. Color images fill numerous pages; at least one zoomed image (obverse and reverse) of all 111 date-denominations with the "CC" mintmark. Historical Setting narratives are included for every year of the Carson City Mint's coinmaking years (1870 - 1893). Coin Commentary sections provide extensive studies of all Carson City silver and gold date-denominations; surviving population data, pedigrees, pricing, and auction appearances are all updated as of year-end 2018. This three-volume set provides all that everyone wants to know about the Carson City Mint and its coins. The Confident Carson City Coin Collector will serve as the definitive reference work about the Carson City Mint and its coins for decades to come.
Works
Author: Isaac Disraeli
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Monthly Review
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Monthly Review; Or, New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph Griffiths
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Stories From Princess Star
Author: Lee-Michael D'Souza
Publisher:
ISBN: 1393473334
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In a not too distant future, animals walk the Earth and work hand-in-hand with us humans on interplanetary ventures. There exists harmony and good-will amongst all the sentient species, but despite this, the Earth and its colonies still suffer from technology, politics, war and wealth. With radically different governments across known space, and with greater powers lurking behind the scenes, civilisation as we know it is being redesigned. Join each animal in their story as their world's machinations and intricacies unravel before their very eyes. This short novel will spark your intrigue as you delve into a radical future world, somewhat similar, but critically different, from our own Earth today.
Publisher:
ISBN: 1393473334
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
In a not too distant future, animals walk the Earth and work hand-in-hand with us humans on interplanetary ventures. There exists harmony and good-will amongst all the sentient species, but despite this, the Earth and its colonies still suffer from technology, politics, war and wealth. With radically different governments across known space, and with greater powers lurking behind the scenes, civilisation as we know it is being redesigned. Join each animal in their story as their world's machinations and intricacies unravel before their very eyes. This short novel will spark your intrigue as you delve into a radical future world, somewhat similar, but critically different, from our own Earth today.
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Author: Paul Baines
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 042951509X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised, constructed and theorized in the 18th century as a corollary of the new documents of the financial revolution: banknotes, bills of exchange and promissory notes. The book surveys the crime and its mythology, placing well-known cases such as that of Dr. William Dodd within the pattern of 400 prosecutions from the period 1715-1780. In parallel, accounts of some major instances of literary forgery are rooted in a more pervasive culture in which "forgery" was discovered in many developing areas of literary practice: scholarly editing, historiography and antiquarianism. One surprising aspect of this study is the extent to which literary figures were involved in matters of criminal as well as literary forgery. It is suggested that the two kinds of forgery have unexpected connections with each other through the economy of literature which, following the development of copyright, regarded the signature of authorship as the legal site of literary authenticity, and through the economic and legal culture of forgery prosecutions, in which bogus "writing" came to signify a whole range of problems of personal and literary character. The study is based on a very large body of diverse material, from major texts such as "The Dunciad" and "Lives of the English Poets" to hundreds of minor poems, controversial pamphlets, criminal biographies, newspapers, legal records and manuscripts.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 042951509X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Published in 1999, this work offers a balanced interdisciplinary account of literary and criminal forgery as they were practised, constructed and theorized in the 18th century as a corollary of the new documents of the financial revolution: banknotes, bills of exchange and promissory notes. The book surveys the crime and its mythology, placing well-known cases such as that of Dr. William Dodd within the pattern of 400 prosecutions from the period 1715-1780. In parallel, accounts of some major instances of literary forgery are rooted in a more pervasive culture in which "forgery" was discovered in many developing areas of literary practice: scholarly editing, historiography and antiquarianism. One surprising aspect of this study is the extent to which literary figures were involved in matters of criminal as well as literary forgery. It is suggested that the two kinds of forgery have unexpected connections with each other through the economy of literature which, following the development of copyright, regarded the signature of authorship as the legal site of literary authenticity, and through the economic and legal culture of forgery prosecutions, in which bogus "writing" came to signify a whole range of problems of personal and literary character. The study is based on a very large body of diverse material, from major texts such as "The Dunciad" and "Lives of the English Poets" to hundreds of minor poems, controversial pamphlets, criminal biographies, newspapers, legal records and manuscripts.
The Bibliographical Decameron; Or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse Upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography and Bibliography
Author: Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description