Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Prologue -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Money -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Primitive Moneys -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Monetary Metals -- Why Gold? -- Roman Golden Age and Decline -- Byzantium and the Bezant -- The Renaissance -- La Belle...

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