The Swiss 10-centime coin has a lot to teach us about monetary economics. On its face, the Swiss 10-centime (rappen in German) looks like a ...

This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae . Twice a year whoever held...

English gold penny minted by Henry III in 1257 A lucky metal detectorist just discovered a Henry III gold penny , one of the first English ...

The new Governor of the DAB, Abdul Qahir Idrees, is introduced to staff.  [ Source ][ Source ] Last week I made the case that the Afghanist...

Having just emerged from the fiasco of last year's coin shortage (which I wrote about here and here ), the U.S. Mint has a new problem ...

I often write about odd monetary phenomena on this blog. Here's a new contender, Yemen's dual banknote system. Yemen uses the Y...

Say that the local lottery system has decided to innovate. Lottery tickets can now be used as money. A ticket with a face value of $x can...

A few centuries ago, lack of fungibility used to be a big weakness of monetary systems. But technological and legal developments eventua...

Archaic and ignored monetary technologies can be very interesting, especially when they teach us about newer attempts to update our monetary...