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The Marteau Early 18th-Century
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Compiled by Roy Davies - a fine assortment of links and books dealing with the question.
Coin directory and numismatic portal.
Site of EH.Net answering questions on the value of a dollar in 1895 or the GDP in 1929 with scientific expertise. Offers also data for prices and wages in the UK from the midle ages to the present.
Offers Data files of historical prices and wages for several economies around the world.
Editions of historical texts on economics.
Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank: Offers a currency converter for the middle ages and modern period and with its "List of Databases" several databases with information on price developments.
Tool offered with information on Scotland's currency and Scottish Weights and Measures by the Scottish Archive Network.
Website by Helmer Christiansen with diagrams of Denmark's Economic History.
Helpful dictionary of historical coins and currencies compiled by Hans-Peter Reinhard, Pirmasens 1999 (in German).
Tables of (historical) gold coins with information about coin weight, fineness and gold content.
Excellent collection of Essais on the history of money in Japan from its beginings to the present day.
Interdisciplinary website of diverse groups (namely the Swiss Society for Early History, SGUF, the Iventory of Coin Finds in Switzerland, IFS, and the Swiss Numismatic Society, SNG) discussing archeological coin finds in Switzerland.
Article by Louis Jordan on the Colonial Currency website. — A Project of the Robert H. Gore, Jr. Numismatic Endowment University of Notre Dame, Department of Special Collections.
Site maintained by Kurt Schuler, Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress, offers information on Asia's and Africa's currencies, focussing on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Website by Emery Snyder with concise overview of currencies and coins.
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Money Museum of the Austrian National Bank — website with information on currencies in Austria
Badisches Landesmuseum, Münzkabinett
Bayerische Staatliche Münzsammlung — The Bavarian state's mint-collection with one of the biggest collections of coins in Europe.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum
Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, Münzkabinett
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Münzkabinett
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, Münzkabinett
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Münzkabinett
Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg, Landesmünzkabinett Sachsen-Anhalt
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Münzkabinett
Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Münzkabinett
Het Koninklijk Penningkabinet — the national collection of coins and medals, the Dutch Central Bank and the Dutch Mintmuseum.
De Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt — the royal mint
MoneyMuseum — Website of the virtual museum representing the MoneyMuseum in Zürich's Hadlaubstraße.
[See for specific titles our pages on individual subjects.]
Munro, John, "Money and Coinage in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe" (University of Toronto, 2005). http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/munro5/MONEYLEC2.pdf
Broadberry, Stephen/ Gupta, Bishnupriya, "The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800" (8 Feb. 2005). http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/broadberry/wp/wage8a.pdf
Broadberry, Stephen/ Gupta, Bishnupriya, "Cotton textiles and the great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Comparative Advantage, 1600-1850", (12 April 2005). http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/broadberry/wp/cotdiv9.pdf
Bonaparte, Yosef, "The Cowrie-Money in West Africa Colonies: the Twentieth Century Puzzle" (The University of Texas at Austin, 2003). http://www.eco.utexas.edu/graduate/Bonaparte/the%20puzzle.pdf
Barendse, R. J., "Trade and State in the Arabian Seas: A Survey from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth century," Journal of World History, 11 no. 2 (Fall, 2002), 173-225. http://www.learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory/support/reading_10_3.pdf
