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An Essay upon Money and Coins

Joseph Harris author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Aug '17

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This 1757 work argues that it is vital to the economy that the value of gold in coinage remains constant.

Joseph Harris (1704–64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. He became the King's Assay Master in the Royal Mint, and this 1757 work argues that it is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in its coinage remains constant.Joseph Harris (1704–64) was equally distinguished as an astronomer and as an expert on coinage. From a humble background, he came to the attention of Edmond Halley, the Astronomer Royal. He spent some time making astronomical observations in South America and the West Indies, and familiarised himself with marine navigational practice, proposing improvements to measuring equipment and publishing a very popular instructional work on the uses of globes and orreries. He later observed the 1761 transit of Venus from Wales. Harris entered the Royal Mint in 1736, and became the King's Assay Master in 1749. This influential 1757 work, considered by the Victorian economist J. R. McCulloch as 'one of the best and most valuable treatises on the subject of money that has ever seen the light', argues that it is vital to a country's economy that the value of precious metal in its coinage remains constant.

ISBN: 9781108078573

Dimensions: 218mm x 140mm x 18mm

Weight: 380g

286 pages