The silver empire : how Germany created its first common currency / Oliver Volckart.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Description: 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.Content type: text | still image | cartographic image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191997495.Subject(s): Money -- Holy Roman Empire | Monetary policy -- Holy Roman Empire | Germany -- Economic conditions -- 16th century | Finance and Accounting | Economics
Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780198894483DDC classification: 332.494309031 Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: 'The Silver Empire' is a comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with - and even to benefit from - the parallel circulation of many different types of coin, it nevertheless harmed both the common people and the political authorities. The authorities in particular suffered from neighbours who used their comparatively good money as raw material to mint poor imitations. Debasing their own coinage provided an, at best, short-term solution. Volckart examines the conditions that shaped the monetary outlook of the member states of the Empire, paying particular attention to the uneven access to silver and gold.
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Also issued in print: 2024.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'The Silver Empire' is a comprehensive account of how the Holy Roman Empire created a common currency in the sixteenth century. The problems that gave rise to the widespread desire to introduce a common a currency were myriad. While trade was able to cope with - and even to benefit from - the parallel circulation of many different types of coin, it nevertheless harmed both the common people and the political authorities. The authorities in particular suffered from neighbours who used their comparatively good money as raw material to mint poor imitations. Debasing their own coinage provided an, at best, short-term solution. Volckart examines the conditions that shaped the monetary outlook of the member states of the Empire, paying particular attention to the uneven access to silver and gold.
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