- Editorial:
- INDEPENDENTLY
- Año de edición:
- 2013
- Materia:
- Negocios, empresa, liderazgo, gerencia en inglés
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59813-043-0
- Encuadernación:
- Tapa blanda
GOOD MONEY
SELGIN , GEORGE
A fascinating story of the important yet virtually unknown episode in the history of money, this history chronicles the British manufacturers challenge to the Crowns 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 to mint custom-made coins, called tradesmans tokens, which served as the nations most popular currency for wages and retail sales until 1821, when the Crown outlawed all moneys except its own.