Old Money
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Old Money
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Owning Old Coins As Owning A Piece Of History
Among the mainstays of coin collecting, old coins are among the most exciting and sought after members of the coin family. Not only do they tend to be rarer than modern coins, but they are often made from valuable materials that actually worth more now than the actual denomination of the coin itself. Which makes old coins that much more of a thrill.
One reason why old coins become value is the simple fact that old coins were often made from precious metals, such as gold or silver. Thus, old coins can often be worth more melted down than they would if they were spent like regular change. However, the fact that they are still stamped coins makes them even more valuable. And their value is only enhanced even more by the fact that they have been around for a while.
Old coins are made even more valuable when they are also rare. Fortunately, the fact that coins are old tends to make them rarer. This is because the older a coin is, the more likely that people have exchanged it for more modern currency and the more likely that the government has gotten a hold of it and melted it down. In fact, most governments have specific legal requirements to destroy old coins in order to keep the money supply modern, making it more difficult for coin collectors to find old coins.
However, coin collectors don't just look for old coins because they are valuable. They are also unusual and provide a connection to people who lived long ago. When you have an old coin in your hands, you are holding the same coin that was passed from hand to hand one hundred, one thousand, even two thousand years ago. They are not just metal, they are pieces of history. What you see and feel in your hands is exactly what your forebears saw and felt.
When you hold old coins in your hands, you are not just holding some old money. Rather, you are holding links to your forebears. Those coins have moved through history as surely as great architecture. And the old coins you collect may have even made history on their own. Who knows whose hands those old coins may have passed through? They may have been in the palms of kings and presidents, philosophers and physicians, writers and artists, or inventors and tycoons. And with the number of times that change changes hands, there is no telling who might have spent those old coins you are adding to your collection.
While old coins can be good investments, they are much more than that for a coin collector. They are windows to long gone pasts and forgotten times. They are connections to people who have lived all manner of lives and done things both great and small. So when you see old coins, remember that many people have worked to earn that coin and they have all, at some level, appreciated its presence in their lives. So enjoy those old coins that you collect and appreciate them for the fact that they could fill entire books with the stories that they have to tell.
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Money $29.98 MONEY - 1927 - CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE BEGINNING OF MONEY. 1 11. KINDS OF MONEY . 11 111. THE QUALITIES OF MONEY . . 17 IV. PURPOSE OF MONEY . . 25 V. THE STORY OF GOLD . . 32 VI. THE PURPOSE OF GOLD . . 41 VII. WHEN GOLD GOES VISITING . 49 VIII. THE GOLD SHOP OF THE WORLD . 58 IX. THE MINTING OF THE COIN . 68 X. PAPER MONEY . . 80 XI. THE ORIGIN OF THE DOLLAR . . 88 TYPES OF NOTES . 95 XII. FOUR XIII. FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES . . 105 XIV. QUANTITY OF PAPER . . 115 XV. THE PROPER USE OF MONEY . . 124 XVI. PAPER FOR THE NOTES . 131 XVII. ENGRAVING THE PLATES . . 145 XVIII. PRINTING THE MONEY . . 154 XIX. PROTECTING THE CURRENCY. . 164 XX. CHECKS AS MONEY . . 171 INTRODUCTION - IT is a strange thing that so little of the actual, physical story of money has been written. Whole alcoves in libraries are full of books on the theory of money. They argue without end over such questions as the gold and silver standard, over what should be back of the money that is issued, over measures to control its pur- chasing power, over inflation, credit. But none of them goes back to the beginning, tells the story of money as it came down through the ages, shows how it developed into its present form, pictures it as it is to-day. None of them tells the physical story of this thing which has much to do with the lives of men. And so people know little about their money. Who knows, for instance, that money started with copper pots Who knows that the first shilling was a fragment of a broken ring taken by the victors in battle from the arms of those whom they had slain Who knows why the United States based its currency on the old pieces-of-eight of the pirate stories instead of the shillings and pounds ofthe mother country Who knows how and why it came to pass that he can go to the bank and get five kinds of ten-dollar bills Who knows why there are enough silver dollars laid away in the treasure vaults of the government to load a freight train three miles long There is no book in the Congressional Library in Washing- ton which in an orderly way presents the facts with relation to the concrete development of the various forms of money with which we come into daily contact. I have worked long in getting these facts together and in attempting to make available the wonderful and romantic story of how this master tool came to the hand of man. In doing so I hope I have rendered a service. I hope I have made it easy for whosoever is curious to get a ready un- derstanding of this money which occupies so much of the attention of most people. THERE was a time when there was no money in all the world. There was none in the western world three thousand years ago. Then the people of Europe lived as simply as did the American Indians when white men first crossed the Atlantic. They had not learned how to use money. Money seems a very simple thing to the peoples of to-day, but some one had to work out the idea of it in the beginning. At the time it was invented there was little trave |
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