Read Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Mundell's paper Uses and Abuses of Gresham's Law in the History of Money.
Read about the use of salt as money and the salt monopolies in India, China and France.
Trace the history of money with a timeline and learn about the Lydian kings who first standardized coins.
Learn about bimetallism and its collapse, arguments for and against it, and William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech.
Explore money through various historical eras and learn about the evolution of US currency, in this exhibit by the bank's San Francisco division.
Learn about the earliest historical records of credit and trace the development of payment systems up to the modern times.
Peruse an article about the history of money and coinage from a numismatic catalog. Link to related sites.
Features interesting nuggets of information on barter, objects used as money, the origin of monetary terms and the right to mint money.
Economics professor presents excerpts from ancient writings, which may prove the use of money much earlier than generally believed.
Details the history of coinage from its earliest manufacture at Lydia in the 6th century BC.
Review the early uses of money by the Persians, ancient Egyptians, Mongols and Chinese. View a timeline and images.
Trace the evolution of Indian coinage through the ancient, medieval, Mughal and later periods. View images of representative coins.
Select a period in the timeline, which runs from 9,000 BC to the present, and read about its money-related developments.
Find out how much a specific amount of money was worth during a certain historical period. Offers international tools and sources.
Review essays and links on several subjects, including the history of money, numismatics and bartering.
Browse the section about the mediums of exchange in ancient Ireland. Check out the comparison of values between a bondmaid and a cow.
Reports on the production of coins in England in relation to Viking invasions. Provides a background on the origin of money terms.