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The age of paper dollars and metal coins is coming to a close. In The End of Money, David Wolman introduces the people, technologies, and trends powering this shakeup, taking us to hotspots of the cashless revolution. He zooms from the cash-strapped slums of Delhi, to the tech-obsessed streets of Tokyo, to London to hobnob with digital cash gurus. Then it's on to Reykjavik, where Icelanders are about to kill their national currency; Washington, to...
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Reprieved confidence trickster Moist von Lipwig, who reorganized the Ankh-Morpork Post Office in 2004's Going Postal, turns his attention to the Royal Mint in this splendid Discworld adventure. It seems that the aristocratic families who run the mint are running it into the ground, and benevolent despot Lord Vetinari thinks Moist can do better. Despite his fondness for money, Moist doesn't want the job, but since he has recently become the guardian...
3) Millions
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The United Kingdom decides to convert to the Euro in seven days. For the Irish criminal world, it's the biggest opportunity as there ever was. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing the two can do, spend it like there's no tomorrow. But Damian and Anthony have differing views on what to do with the money. What they both discover is that money can...
6) Masterminds
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A night guard at a car company organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history for seventeen million. Only problem is he hands the money over to a group of double crossers and is set up to take the fall.
In this action comedy based on true events, David Ghantt (Zach Galifianakis) discovers the true meaning of adventure far beyond his wildest dreams. He is an uncomplicated man stuck in a monotonous life. Day in and day out he drives an...
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Your source for U.S. currency! For more than three decades, the Standard Catalog of United States Paper Money has been the essential annual guide to U.S. currency, providing complete coverage in an easy-to-use format. No other U.S. paper money reference contains that vast amount of images, type listings and price values as found in this new edition.
11) Paper money
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This book offers a fascinating explanation of paper currency, which isn't really paper after all. Readers will learn that the United States prints enough bills each year to circle the Earth more than thirty times. Also featured are simple, explanations of the many pictures, symbols, words, and numbers, found on this kind of currency.
14) The buck book
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A collection of origami projects to make with an American One dollar bill. Includes dollar bill facts and myths.
15) Millions
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Damian and Anthony, young boys from Ireland, find a bag filled with money and learn a lesson in ethics.
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"A unique overview of international currency, All the Money in the World chronicles how political, cultural, and economic forces have shaped the development of coinage and paper currency from antiquity through today. Douglas Mudd, the Curator of the ANA (American Numismatic Association) Money Museum, describes the extraordinary diversity and beauty of monetary imagery - an important source of cultural and historical information. This illustrated and...
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Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas--the geographical centre of America--journalist Steve Boggan did just that by setting free a ten-dollar-bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights through six states across 3,000 miles armed only with a sense of humor and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas...
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"The Many Fascinating Secrets Uncovered by Ovason Include: Symbology, religion, and magic were all involved in the creation of the dollar bill: the "Eye of Providence in a radiant Triangle" is a widely known Masonic symbol; the words Ex Pluribus Unum are early Christian; and the five-pointed star is a magical symbol linked with duration and time; Numerology played a large part in the design of the dollar bill. One example is the number 13, which dominates...