Collecting Paper Money
Narbeth, Colin / Narbeth, Simon
In 'Collecting Paper Money' you will discover the story of paper money from the earliest Chinese notes, established to avoid carrying heavy cash coins, to interesting contemporary issues. You will learn of emergency siege money, intriguing forgeries, devastating inflations along with wartime and revolutionary issues that left winners and losers. Paper money tells the history of the world: from the elaborately decorative designs, created by som...