http://www.lybrary.com/index.php?cPath=159 Copyright © 2010 Lybrary.comFor most of the last three millennia, the world’s commercial centers have used one or another variant of a gold standard. It should be one of the best understood of human institutions, but it’s not. It’s one of the worst understood, by both its advocates and detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments many times, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve its duty, but because governments had other plans for their currencies beyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis, there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes of the past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, could not be recreated in the next four centuries. In <i>Gold,</i> he makes a forceful, well-documented case for a worldwide return to the gold standard.<p>Governments and central bankers around the world today unanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more so after some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy to smoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides the stability needed to foster greater prosperity and productivity throughout the world. He offers an insightful look at money in all its forms, from the seventh century B.C. to the present day, explaining in straightforward layman’s terms the effects of inflation, deflation, and floating currencies along with their effect on prices, wages, taxes, and debt. He explains how the circulation of money is regulated by central banks and, in the process, demystifies the concepts of supply, demand, and the value of currency. And he illustrates how higher taxes diminish productivity, trade, and the stability of money. Lewis also provides an entertaining history of U.S. money and offers a sobering look at recent currency crises around the world, including the Asian monetary crisis of the late 1990s and the devastating currency devaluations in Russia, China, Mexico, and Yugoslavia.<p>Lewis’s ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance. If history is a guide, it will be done again.<p><b>Nathan Lewis</b> was formerly the chief international economist of a firm that provided investment research for institutions. He now works for an asset management company based in New York. Lewis has written for the <i>Financial Times</i>, <i>Asian Wall Street</i> <i>Journal, Japan Times, Pravda,</i> and other publications. He has appeared on financial television in the United States, Japan, and the Middle East.http://www.lybrary.com/gold-once-future-money-p-941.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/gold-once-future-money-p-941.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST <i>Coin Collecting For Dummies, 2nd Edition</i>, provides the latest information on how to get started in coin collecting, how coin grading works, determining coin values, and navigating the ever-growing trend of buying and evaluating coins on the Internet. From the a child looking to evaluate his buffalo nickel to an expert in search of the elusive 1933 Gold Double Eagle, <i>Coin Collecting For Dummies</i> is the perfect resource for coin collectors of all ages!
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Covers the essentials of coin collecting at an affordable price. Spend wisely and then keep your collection in mint condition.
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Can't make heads or tails of numismatics? Welcome to a treasure-trove of information on numismatics - or rather, coin collecting. This hands-on guide escorts you through the world's oldest hobby, covering topics such as how to decide which coins to collect, ways to protect them, buying and selling on the Internet, attending coin shows, to assembling and diversifying your collection. 
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Discover how to: 
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<li>Understand how age affects value 
<li>Locate rare and expensive coins 
<li>Get savvy with avoiding fakes 
<li>Get kids or loved ones involved
</ul>http://www.lybrary.com/coin-collecting-dummies-p-836.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/coin-collecting-dummies-p-836.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The hobby of collecting paper money is red hot. More and more people are becoming interested in this fascinating hobby combining banking, history, art, and even genealogy. Hobbyists have taken to collecting national bank notes as a fun way to stay connected to their hometown. <I>National Bank Notes from Frederick Md.</I> provides the reader with a basic understanding of national bank notes, and explores in detail the currency and bank officers from Frederick, Maryland.</p>This non-fiction highlights years of work by the author including dozens of interviews and hundreds of research hours. The research involved cataloging surviving bank notes, documenting history of the banks, and finding biographies of the bank's officers who signed the bank notes. The research pulled extensively from the U.S. National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Historical Society of Frederick County, Maryland Room of the Frederick County Library, and Comptroller of Currency Annual Reports.</p>From 1865 to 1935 Frederick supported six national banks, with one of those banks being re-chartered. The banks include the Central National Bank, Farmers and Mechanics National Bank, Frederick County National Bank (later re-chartered), First National Bank, and Citizens National Bank. Notes are known from all six charters, with three charters being common and the other three fairly rare.http://www.lybrary.com/national-bank-notes-from-frederick-p-791.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/national-bank-notes-from-frederick-p-791.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST Cunobelin, Shakespeare's Cymbeline, ruled much of Southeast Britain in the years before Claudius' legions arrived, creating the Roman Province of Britannia. But what do we know of him and his rule, and that of competing dynasties in Southeast Britain? This book examines the background to these, the first individuals in British history. It explores the way in which rulers bolstered their power through the use of imagery on coins, myths, language, and material culture. After the visit of Caesar in 55 and 54 BC, the shadow of Rome played a fundamental role in this process. Combining the archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in Late Iron Age Britain reacted to the changing world around them.http://www.lybrary.com/coins-power-late-iron-britain-p-790.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/coins-power-late-iron-britain-p-790.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST The hobby of collecting paper money is red hot. More and more people are becoming interested in this fascinating hobby combining banking, history, art, and even genealogy. Hobbyists have taken to collecting national bank notes as a fun way to stay connected to their hometown. <I>National Bank Notes from Bowling Green, KY</I> assumes the reader has a basic understanding of national bank notes and explores the author's hometown currency from Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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This non-fiction highlights over 12 years of work by the author including dozens of interviews and hundreds of research hours. The research involved cataloging surviving bank notes, documenting history of the banks, and finding biographies of the bank's officers who signed the bank notes. The research pulled extensively from the U.S. National Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Kentucky Library, and Comptroller of Currency Annual Reports.
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From 1874 to 1935 Bowling Green supported six national banks, with notes surviving from four of the six banks. Notes from the Citizens National Bank and American National Bank are fairly common, while notes from the Liberty National Bank and Bowling Green National Bank are quite rare. The Warren National Bank and National Southern Kentucky Bank have no surviving notes. The author loves the hobby of collecting paper money and shares that enthusiasm with his readers.http://www.lybrary.com/national-bank-notes-from-bowling-green-p-789.htmlhttp://www.lybrary.com/national-bank-notes-from-bowling-green-p-789.htmlSat, 13 Mar 2010 23:00:00 EST History, sovereignty, geography and money are timely topics in todays global economic marketplace.
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Money has attracted a major part of mankind’s attention since its invention in Asia Minor in the 7th century B.C. It has had many uses over the ages beyond its original development for purposes of long distance trade and military power. Among the most important and least studied is the use of money as a means of communication through their designs and legends. A nation’s money is often the first impression a visitor gets of the nature of a country. As such, the designs and legends placed on money have always been considered important by the authorities responsible for their issue. Often, these authorities have risen beyond the demands of simple utility and required that their currency be beautiful as well as useful. The focus of this ebook is on the stories behind the design and legends placed on gold coins since the invention of the Western coin tradition in ancient Anatolia some 2650 years ago.
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Each coin's obverse and reverse listed below in the table of contents is shown in a beautiful large color photo in this ebook.
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<i>1st edition 2008; 79 pages.</i>
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<b>Table of Contents</b>
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<li value=5>Introduction
<li value=6>The Origins of Money
<li value=6>The Greek Tradition
<li value=7>The Chinese Tradition
<li value=7>The Indian Tradition
<li value=9>Coinage as a means of Communication
<li value=16>The Future of Money – Electronic Media
<li value=20>Lydian stater of King Croesus
<li value=22>Persian Gold Stater
<li value=24>Gold Octodrachm of Ptolemy III, 246 - 221 BC
<li value=26>Gold Aureus of Claudius
<li value=29>Gold stater of Huvishka, 143 - 180 AD
<li value=31>Gold solidus of Constantius II, 337 - 361 AD
<li value=33>Gold Solidus of Heraclius, 610 – 641 AD
<li value=36>Gold Tremissis of Wittiza, 698-710 AD
<li value=38>Gold Augustale of Frederick II, 1197 - 1250 AD
<li value=40>Gold Ecu a la Couronne of Charles VI, 1385
<li value=42>Gold Salut d’or of Henry VI, 1422 – 1471
<li value=44>Gold 20 Excellente of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1479-1504
<li value=46>Gold Ducat of Charles V
<li value=48>Gold Mohur of Jahangir, 1622 AD
<li value=50>Gold Triple Unite of Charles I
<li value=52>Gold 3 Ducat of John Casimir
<li value=54>Gold 8 Escudos of Philip V of Spain, 1715
<li value=56>Gold Eagle of the United States, 1795
<li value=59>Gold 40 Francs of Napoleon
<li value=62>Gold Mohur of the British East India Company, 1819
<li value=64>Gold 8 Escudos of Argentina
<li value=67>U.S. ‘metric gold’ Stella, Flowing hair design, 1879
<li value=69>Gold 20 Dala of Queen Lilliuocalani
<li value=71>Gold 10 Dollars of the Republic of China -1916
<li value=73>Gold 15 Rupees of German East Africa - 1916
<li value=76>Gold 50 Soles of Peru, 1930
<li value=78>Gold 5 Franc Pattern of the Democratic Republic of Congo
<li value=80>Numismatic Bibliography
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