Money: Everything You Never Knew About Your Favorite Thing to Find, Save, Spend & Covet

A lively, illustrated, trivia-packed volume about the subject that makes the world go round.

Ever made a fast buck? How about traded cowrie shells for a bride or paid for gum with a $10,000 bill? This entertaining and information-packed miscellany explains our fascination with money and how it has shaped our world.

Vintage photographs and artwork illustrate surprising facts, lists, and trivia about forgotten financial catastrophes and famous bank robbers, the history of bankruptcy and ancient money gods, wacky cash-related slang and get-rich-quick schemes for the ages. Witty and comprehensive, this valuable volume explores dollars and cents, pounds and pence, and the countless other forms of money.

© 2011 Chronicle Books LLC (Ebook): 9781452105598

Release date

Ebook: July 22, 2011