Finetti, Numismatics and Technology

Angelo Finetti, Numismatics and Technology. Production and Evaluation of Money in Past Societies, NIS, Rome 1987, pp. 141, richly illustrated, cm 22, softcover ed.

Series: NIS Archaeology Studies, 6.

English: The function of the product "money" has always been to pass from hand to hand, carrying with it a series of economic, historical, political and social messages. But at the base of everything there is always metal, with the obscure people who extracted and worked it, who translated a set of ideas into a form and prepared the tools to convert those ideas into that form. Observing an ancient coin, taken as we are by the meanings that its creators have transferred to it, too often we miss what lies behind its creation; in addition to all the precautions aimed at preserving its integrity, behind it there is, in essence, the constant search for the subtle balance between content and form and between cost and value. With this work we have tried to examine the "physicality" of money in its various aspects (legal, substitutive, false or imitated), following its developments to provide researchers and collectors, in addition to news and sources, a series of information on the evolution of the tools and techniques used for its creation.

Numismatist's ownership stamps on the first cards.

Traces of use on the paperback, otherwise in very good condition.

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