Chats on Old Coins

This book aims to provide in a condensed form an account a history of coins starting with the obsolete currencies, which have used by the most prominent countries from the start commerce in the history of the world. In this work the author has endeavored to avoid the heavier and drier aspects of numismatology and presents in a popular form the more interesting facts which would interest the collector and interested reader alike.Divided into 23 chapters this book describes the story of coinage; the coins of ancient Greece; the coins of ancient Rome and the republican era; the coins of the 12 great ceasars; Roman currency; Early British and Romano-British coins; the saxon period; Norman and Plantagenet; coins of the Lancastiran and Yorkist kings; The Tudor period; the Stuarts; the commonwealth; the house of Hanover; Victor, Edward VII, and George V, Regal Copper coins; British colonial coins; Ireland and the Isle of man coins; Coins of Scotland; American coinage; and, 17th, 18th and 19th century tokens. The book is illustrated with 258 illustrations.