Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about currency, then and now.

Abraham Lincoln was three years away from being elected president when the half-cent coin was discontinued as an official ...

Seventeen-year-old Alexander Paris-Callahan, a recent Santa Monica High School graduate now attending UC Berkeley, has released "500 Events That Shaped the History of Money," tracing financial ...

The last Lincoln penny was recently struck at the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia. Its removal from circulation marks just one of ...

Introduction / Joseph T. Salerno -- pt. 1. The history of money and banking before the twentieth century -- pt. 2. The origins of the Federal Reserve -- pt. 3. From Hoover to Roosevelt : the Federal ...

1: Mesopotamia, Greece and Egypt -- 2: The Roman World -- 3: Medieval Europe -- 4: The Islamic Lands -- 5: India and South-East Asia -- 6: China and the East -- 7: The Early Modern Period -- 8: Africa ...

Imagine money falling from the sky. Would you slip a tenner into your pocket before you told anyone? Chances are, most of us would trouser a few notes rather ...