Dinesh's photos with the keyword: The History of Money

Now an academician, now a hero, Now a seafarer, now carpenter, He, with an all encompasing soul, Was on the throne an eternal worker ~ Pushkin

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This outstanding surviving example of an early press shows the carriage open, exposing the type laid out on the forme* below. Hanging from the side of the press is the soft sponge used to ink the type. Beams anchor the press to the ceiling of the workshop * = a body of type secured in a chase for printing.

The present revolutionary change in the nature and uses of money constitutes the third great mutation in money. The first generation began with the invention of coins in Lydia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia nearly three thousand years ago and resulted in the first system to open and free markets. The invention and dissemination of coins and the accompanying market created a whole new cultural system -- the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean. The new monetary and market system ultimately spread around the world and gradually destroyed the great tributary empires of history. ~ xii Foreword