Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821

by George Selgin

Book Overview

A fascinating story of the important yet virtually unknown episode in the history of money, this history chronicles the British manufacturers' challenge to the Crown's monopoly on coinage. In the 1780s, when the Industrial Revolution was gathering momentum, the Royal Mint failed to produce enough small-denomination coinage for factory owners to pay their workers. As the currency shortage threatened to derail industrial progress, manufacturers began...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598130439
• ISBN13: 9781598130430
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Independent Institute
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"