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Condición: Used - Very Good. VG hardback. English text. A bright, clean copy in tight binding. Owner's name inked on front pastedown. Otherwise almost as new. Used - Very Good. VG hardback.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Scarce hardcover, 296 pages, colour images, glossy paper, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout, with unmarked text and firm binding, free of inscriptions and stamps. Moderate cosmetic bumps and creases on boards. Issued without a dust jacket. Weight 950g. -- Contents: Introduction; 10th Century [Before the Emergence of the Polish State; Beginnings of Polish Coinage; Money at the End of the 10th Century]; 11th Century [Denars of Boleslaus the Brave; Minting in the Second Half of the 11th Century; Coinage at the End of the 11th Century]; 12th Century [Money of Boleslaus the Wrymouth; Beginnings of Regional Fragmentation; Money Economy: End of the 12th Century]; 13th Century [Further Decentralisation of Minting; Twilight of the Denar System; Grossus Reform]; 14th Century [After the Unification of the State; Achievements of Casimir the Great; Coinage at the End of the 14th Century]; 15th Century [State and the Currency; Half-Grosz of the Jagiellons; Birth of the Polish Zloty; Coinage in the Poland of the Piasts and Jagiellons (Photos)]; 16th Century [Beginning of the Golden Age; Times of the Sigismunds; Reform of Stephen Bathory; End of the Golden Age; Price Revolution]; 17th Century [Monetary Crisis; Money of John Casimir; Days of the Piasts; Evolution of the Coinage in the 17th Century]; 18th Century [Saxon Times; Times of Stanislaus Augustus; Currency in the Final Days of the Commonwealth; Money in the Commonwealth of Two Nations (Photos)]; 19th Century [After the Partitions: First Period; Episode of the Duchy of Warsaw; Money of the Congress Kingdom of Poland; Changes to the Monetary Systems of the Partitioning Powers; Economy and the Currency: End of the 19th Century; Partitions (Photos)]; 20th Century [Before the Rebirth of the Polish State; Second Republic (Inflation of the Polish Mark - Currency Reform - Second Inflation - Stabilisation of the Zloty - Great Depression and Deflation - Foreign Exchange Rationing); War and the Occupation; Second Republic & World War II (Photos); Polish People's Republic (Economic Reconstruction - Currency in the Service of Industrialisation - 1950s - 1960s - 1970s - 1980s - Turning Point Arrives); Polish People's Republic & the Beginning of the Third Republic (Photos); Third Republic (Beginning of Transition - Stabilisation Makes Progress - Inflation Target); End of a Turbulent Century]; 21st Century [First Years; Road to the Euro; The Future]; Appendix 1. Poland's Monetary History in Numbers [Monetary Systems; Money Economy; Price Levels; Structure of Prices; Purchasing Power; Interest & Exchange Rates; European Money]; Appendix 2. Timeline of Polish Monetary History; References; Tables [Coinage of the Ruling Princes 1138-1202; Issuance of Half-Grosz: 15th Century; Evolution of the Coinage: 16th Century; Coinage in the Years 1600-32; Polish State, Economy and Currency in the 17th Century; Polish Monetary System Under the Edict of 1717; Output of the Warsaw Mint 1766-95; First Issue of Paper Currency: Treasury Notes of The Kosciuszko Insurrection 1794; Polish State, Economy and Currency in the 18th Century; Monetary Units of the Partitioning Powers 1800; Monetary Systems of the Partitioning Powers, End of 19th Century; Polish Mark Inflation & Hyperinflation; Excerpts from Currency Conversion Table, 1924; Economy and the Currency During the Great Depression; Occupation Currency; Accelerated Growth, Based on Western Credit; From Recession to Recession; Beginning of Transition; Macroeconomic Situation 1992-1997; End of a Decade of the Market Economy; Basic Economic Indicators 2001-2002]; Tables in Appendices; Charts. -- ".This book is much more than a tale of the history of Polish money, however attractively written that might be. It is at the same time a profound, and also precise, analysis of historical tendencies in Poland, against the backdrop of Europe, as these have been manifest in monetary developments." (Leszek Balcerowicz).