The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World

The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World 

by David Standish 

Language: English 

San Francsico: Chronicle Books, 2000. 

144 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm. 

ISBN: 9780811828055, 0811828050 

Summary: A beautifully illustrated history of paper currency from around the world offers a close-up look at a variety of international bills, detailing the various people, places, animals, historical events, and other subjects appearing on the currency from some eighty countries. Both a cultural history and an artful design book, this volume chronicles the origins of currency, the symbols behind the designs, and the often nationalistic and propagandistic motives underlying them. After a history tracing the path of commodity-currencies, the book looks at the subject matter, by category, behind the designs of various paper money from its origin to today's Euro.

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