World Coins. A Visual History of the Development of Numismatics from Antiquity to the Present Day

What can a coin tell about? On coins - not only ancient, gold and silver, but also the simplest - the whole history of mankind is reflected. The coins were witnesses of financial shocks and couples, and by no means third -hand: how much in the history of cases when a small, seemingly event, led to the rework of thousands of coins or to a change in their appearance! Recall at least the history of the "Russian Iron Mask" - the young king Ivan Antonovich, after the arrest of which coins with his portrait began to be removed from the appeal, and now they have turned into numismatic rarity. Or our infamous perestroika, when by the composition of coins, by what metal and in what weight they minted, it was possible to judge the current financial condition of the state. There are legends about how coins contributed to unexpected historical twists. Allegedly, when, after the great French revolution, Louis XVI tried to flee the country, he was identified and detained thanks to