Dollars

Dollars is an entertaining, informative book on how coins and bills have marked the political and social history of the world. Tracing legal tender from the fifteenth century country of Tyrol to the recent rise and fall of the U.S. Sacagawea and Presidential dollar coins. By exploring the dollar, Bartlett gives the reader an understanding of the importance and role dollars have played throughout history in the geopolitical climate of countries. With a generous sprinkling of easily digested history, Dollars give the reader information on why some coins and paper money seemed to disappear almost before they were released and some others remain in circulation. Dollars also explains the advantages of coins in relation to paper dollars for trade dollars in an understandable manner. Dollars belongs on your bookshelf as a companion to historical and economic texts for collectors, enthusiasts and anyone who wants to understand the dollar better.