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Article ID: CBB471911380

Money Supplies (2023)

Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Volume: 114
Issue: 2
Pages: 387-392
Publication date: 2023
Language: English

DOI: 10.1086/724798

URI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724798

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Materials science Supply networks; logistics; supply chain economics Material culture Coins; medals; seals Economic history Assaying Currency; coinage; monetary systems Early modern 19th century

From the spread of silver as commodity money in the early modern world to mass-produced national currency in the nineteenth century, coins had a dual nature. They supplied facts about the past when they were investigated by antiquarians, and they required knowledge of materials and their supply when used as currency. This essay explores a little-researched borderland between economic history and history of science: the work of assayers and mint officials, where antiquarian and commercial interests merged.

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Article Viktoria Tkaczyk; Christine von Oertzen (2023) Introduction: Reconsidering the Resources of Epistemic Tools. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 359-365). unapi

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