Now here is a book. It instructs and provokes and entertains. Even its mistakes are worthwhile. The secret of “The History of Money” is in the subtitle: “a story of humanity.” For David McWilliams, an ...

In the modern world, it would be almost impossible to function without having some sort of paper currency. Paper money ...

The history of money -- Western Europe -- Eastern Europe -- East Asia -- Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia -- Islamic world -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- South America -- North American -- Australia ...

55 Dollar Note, Colonial America, 1779. Printed in Philadelphia. Donated by The Chase Manhattan Bank. Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. By the 1770s, paper money was central to the ...