Good Money. Birmingham button makers, the Royal Mint and the beginnings of modern coinage, 1775-1821
Details:
- Author(s) Selgin, George A
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2008
- Pages 345pp; illus
- Publisher University of Michigan Press
Topics:
- Name Competition, collusion, monopoly & cartels inc competition policy & regulation
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
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Notes:
Reprinted as 'Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821. Private enterprise and popular coinage', 2011. Scholarly work. Explores 'private enterprise and the foundation of modern coinage', dealing with wide ranging issues - availability of coinage and its economic implications, challenge to the state's production monopoly, the methods of coin production, availability of raw materials, the private producers of coins and tokens, the production of tradesmen's tokens, the role [or lack of it] of the Royal Mint, the role of Matthew Boulton and the Soho Mint, government's eventual prohibition of private coinage, resumption of the Royal Mint's production, etc, etc