Liciniano Saez Demostracion historica del verdadero valor de las monedas, etc. 1805 (Real Acad. de la historia).
Dr. Clemencin On the Ratio in Spain (in Memorias de la Real Academia de la Historia, vol. vi. p. 525).
R. Ruding Annals of the Coinage of Britain.
Lord Liverpool Treatise on the Coins of the Realm.
S.M. Leake A Historical Account of English Money.
H.N. Sealey Coins, Currency, and Banking.
Macpherson Anderson's History of Commerce.
Bishop Fleetwood Chronicon Preciosum, or an Account of English Money, etc. etc. London, 1707
Bishop Nicolson English, Scotch, and Irish Historical Libraries.
Sir Dudley North Discourses upon Trade. 1691.
Sir Walter Raleigh Works (Oxford Edition).
Harris An Essay upon Money and Coins. London, 1752.
State Papers Foreign (Record Office). (Absolutely invaluable.)
Close Rolls and Patent Rolls (Record Office).
Reports of the Deputy-Master of the Mint, 1870-94.
United States Reports of the International Monetary Conference. 1878. (Embodying an invaluable series of reprints.)
J. Laurence Laughlin The History of Bimetallism in the United States. New York, 1894.
Dunbar Laws of the United States on Currency and Banking, etc.
Of the almost endless series of Government Reports, a full bibliography will be found in Soetbeer's Litteraturnachweis.
The American Mint Reports, and the Austrian _Statistische Tabellen zur Wahrungs-Frage der Osterreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie_ (Vienna, 1892), deserve separate and special mention for their unequalled usefulness.
I am deeply indebted to H.C. Maxwell Lyte, C.B., Deputy Keeper of the Records, for references to the Patent and Close Rolls, the Exchequer Records, and other sources, which I have attempted to work into the tables of the French coins (Appendix VI.).
The Index of Coins at the end of the present volume is intended mainly for the purposes of historical research. It has been compiled, along with the General Index, entirely by my sister, Miss Edna Shaw, to whom my warmest thanks are due.
From the Commencement of Gold Coinages to the Discovery of America, 1252-1492
Recommencement of gold coinages in Europe, 1; in Italy, 3; Germany, 6; France, 9; Flanders, 10; Holland, Spain, and England, 11; characteristics of the first period, 13; general depreciation of the standard, 15; monetary experience of Italy, 17; the Florentine troubles, 18; monetary experience of Spain, 23; the Cortes of Valladolid, 24; monetary experience of Germany, 25; the Mint conventions, 26; tables of the groschen and gulden, 30, 31; monetary experience of France, 31; arbitrary debasements, 32; course of the monies under Philippe de Valois, 35; the States-General of France, 1420, 37; Charles VII., 38; Louis XI. and Charles VIII., 39; general statement of the ratio, 40; monetary experience of England, 41; Edward III.'s issues of gold, 42; the measures of, 1353, 45; complaints of 1381, and the monetary investigation, 50; recoinage of 1414, 55; recoinage of Henry VI., 58.