Authors:Cottrell, Philip L. Cottrell, Gerassimos Notaras, Gab
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: financial, history, banking, studies, tetradrachm, euro, athenian
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2007-05-07
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754653897
ISBN-13: 9780754653899

With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro’s achievements in harmonising Europe’s financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it is by no means the first pan-national currency to enter circulation. Indeed, as the various contributions to this volume make plain, the Euro can in many ways be regarded as a step ’back to the future’, that is, a further international currency in a long historical tradition that includes the Athen