Fineness and Debasement

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The contents of “the same coin” quietly shrink. By the time anyone notices, there is no going back. Debasement is the failure repeated most often in the history of money.

1. about 650 BC　The Invention of Striking 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
2. 600 BC　Lydia · Sardis 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
3. AD 64　Nero's Debasement 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
4. The 1930s　A refinery furnace 　The Rothschild family (Frankfurt, London, Paris, Vienna, Naples)
5. the 1st century　The mint of Lugdunum 　Italy
6. 64　The mint of Rome 　Italy
7. 206–180 BC　A market in the early Han 　China
8. the 3rd century　The Cosmetic of the Silver Wash 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
9. the 2nd–3rd centuries　An imperial mint 　Italy
10. AD 260–274　The legionary forts of the Rhine, and Cologne 　France
11. AD 312　Constantinople 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
12. the 7th–4th centuries BC　A village market, a place of exchange 　China
13. 6th–4th centuries BCE　Marketplace 　India
14. 450s–420s BCE　The agorae of the allied cities 　Greece
15. 4th–6th centuries　Gupta Empire 　India
16. the 4th–7th centuries　The Medieval Dollar 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
17. the 7th century　The mint of Pavia 　Italy
18. 670–about 690　The North Sea trading world 　France
19. 757–796　The kingdom of Mercia 　Britain
20. the later 10th century　Mints across England 　Britain
21. 978–1016　An English mint 　Britain
22. 1030s　The Money Changer's Stall 　Greece
23. the 11th century　The Twilight of the Nomisma 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
24. about AD 30　Thirty Pieces of Silver 　Overview: 2,700 years of the world
25. the 10th–11th centuries　The Île-de-France 　France
26. 4th–11th centuries　The Imperial Scales 　Greece
27. 1092　Mint of the Imperial Capital 　Greece
28. the 11th–12th centuries　A market straddling the frontier 　Spain
29. the 12th century　A minting workshop in Coimbra 　Portugal
30. the 10th–12th centuries　The mint of Lucca 　Italy
31. the 11th–12th centuries　A market in northern Italy 　Italy
32. the 12th century　The hall of the commune 　Italy
33. about the end of the 12th century　The Zecca of Venice 　Italy
34. From 1204　The Fallen Imperial Capital 　Greece
35. 1247　The London mint 　Britain
36. the 12th–13th centuries　A village market and the royal coffer 　Portugal
37. the 13th century　The cities of northern Italy 　Italy
38. 1284–1797　Beside St Mark's 　Italy
39. From 1284　Aegean port 　Greece
40. 1290　An English port 　Britain
41. 1295–1314　The mint of Paris 　France
42. 1296–1316　In the marketplace 　India
43. Circa 1327　Before the furnace of the mint 　Turkey
44. 1327–2005　Observation Deck at the End of the Journey 　Turkey
45. 1337–about 1350　The royal mint, Paris in winter 　France
46. the 14th century　The low country, a mint at night 　Netherlands
47. the later 14th century　The royal mint 　Portugal
48. the later 14th century　A counting table at the market 　Portugal
49. 14th century　Caravanserai 　Turkey
50. 14th century　Market 　Korea
51. the 15th century　A market of Castile 　Spain
52. the 15th century　The low country, the unfinished tower of a cathedral 　Netherlands
53. 14th–15th centuries　Moscow 　Russia
54. 1455–1485　An English battlefield 　Britain
55. 1471　The royal palace of Castile 　Spain
56. 1485–1500　The Ouchi castle town and Kyoto 　Japan
57. 1486　The Hall Mint 　Austria
58. 1497　A mint of Castile 　Spain
59. Up to 1519　Central Mexico 　Mexico
60. 1521–　New Spain 　Mexico
61. 1521–　Mexico City 　Mexico
62. From 1536　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
63. 1537　A mint of Castile 　Spain
64. 1540–1545　A city in Northern India 　India
65. 1544　The Tudor court 　Britain
66. 1544–1551　The London mint 　Britain
67. 1544–1551　A market in London 　Britain
68. 1544–1551　An English town 　Britain
69. the 16th century　A market in France 　France
70. the 16th century　A mint of the New World 　Spain
71. the 16th century　Seville, the quay of the Guadalquivir 　Spain
72. the 15th–16th centuries　The fairs of Flanders 　Portugal
73. the 14th–16th centuries　The harbour of Alexandria 　Italy
74. the 16th century　The mints of the many states 　Italy
75. 1554　The refining works of Pachuca 　Spain
76. 1560–1561　The London mint 　Britain
77. about 1560　The queen's court 　Britain
78. 1560–1858　London, and a study of a later age 　Britain
79. 1571　London, the Royal Exchange 　Britain
80. From 1572　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
81. from 1575　A harbour in the Low Countries 　Netherlands
82. The 1580s　In the back of the mint 　Turkey
83. April 1589　The Road to the Palace 　Turkey
84. April 1589　Before the palace gate 　Turkey
85. 1618　The empire under the clouds of war 　Germany
86. 1619–1623　The changers' counters of the territories 　Germany
87. 1619–1623　Mints springing up everywhere 　Germany
88. From 1621　Money changer's table 　Austria
89. about 1623　The territories moving toward a settlement 　Germany
90. Circa 1623　Central Europe 　Austria
91. 1649　The Potosí mint 　Spain
92. the 16th–17th centuries　The workshop of a New World mint 　Spain
93. the 17th century　The market of Naples 　Italy
94. 17th century　The Money Changer's Drawer 　Turkey
95. 1658–1713　the finance office, Edo 　Japan
96. 1683–1715　The Paris mint 　France
97. the middle of the 1690s　London 　Britain
98. 1695　Edo 　Japan
99. 1696　The mint in the Tower of London 　Britain
100. 1696–1727　The Tower and the taverns of London 　Britain
101. 1696　London 　Russia
102. 1701–1710　A winter village and the mint 　France
103. 1706–1711　Edo and Osaka 　Japan
104. 1714　Edo 　Japan
105. 1728 and 1730　Madrid 　Spain
106. 1736　Edo and Dojima in Osaka 　Japan
107. From 1741　Mint 　Austria
108. from 1750　The market where the standard is posted 　Germany
109. the 18th century　The Levant, a port of the eastern Mediterranean 　Germany
110. the 18th century　The mint of Lisbon 　Portugal
111. 18th Century　The Empire's Market 　Turkey
112. 1756–1763　A mint let out on contract 　Germany
113. from 1763　A market returning to peacetime 　Germany
114. 1767–1773　The Potosí mint 　Spain
115. From 1772　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
116. From 1772　Treaty ports of China 　Mexico
117. 1772–　Spanish Royal House 　Mexico
118. 1792　The Coinage Act, the penalty clause 　United States
119. 1797　The Zecca of Venice 　Italy
120. 1808–1814　Cádiz, a port town under siege 　Spain
121. 1818–1819　Ryogoku, Edo 　Japan
122. 1824–　Mexico City Mint 　Mexico
123. 1833–1837　Osaka 　Japan
124. 1835　Mint 　India
125. The 1840s　A meeting room at the State Treasury 　Turkey
126. 1844　Main gate of the mint 　Turkey
127. 1844　The Mint's vault 　Turkey
128. 1844　The Treasury's accounting room 　Turkey
129. the 13th–19th centuries　A Castilian counting-table 　Spain
130. the 16th–19th centuries　A place where silver is cast into ingots 　China
131. the 16th–19th centuries　A table of scales and weights 　China
132. the 18th–19th centuries　The Thirteen Factories of Canton 　China
133. 1860　Edo, outside the Sakurada Gate 　Japan
134. 1865–1866　The mint inspector's workbench 　France
135. 1866　Counting house 　South Korea
136. 1885　the darkness of the storehouse 　Japan
137. 1889–1911　A factory lined with coining presses 　China
138. 1890–1911　The provincial mints 　China
139. 1900　Washington, the federal Congress 　United States
140. 1914　Peking: the issue of the new silver coin 　China
141. the 1914s–the 1930s　A counting desk inspecting silver coins 　China
142. 1919　The market of Turin 　Italy
143. 1937-1945　Place of Issue 　Korea
144. September 7, 1946　During the cabinet meeting 　Turkey
145. The 1950s　A Harbor Warehouse 　Turkey

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