World Monetary Units
World Monetary Units: An Historical Dictionary, Country by Country
By Howard M. Berlin
Published by McFarland, 2005
This is a 7" by 10" hardbound book running to 229 pages including a series of appendices, a bibliography and an index, plus a brief preface and a "how to use this book" section.
The book has entries of a half a page to just over a page covering the monetary units of each country in the world. Each entry gives a brief history of the country's monetary units, finishing with tables laying out the chronology of their development and the orthography of the country's currency (the formation of words, abbreviations and symbols representing the monetary denominations). Economic facts about a country's money system and its history are not covered; the book is limited to information about monetary units.
The detail is quite impressive given the brevity of the entries. For example, the entry on Uzbekistan's currency provides a note showing the difference between the Uzbek/Uigur spellings of the denominational units "som" and "tiyin" and the Kyrgyz spellings, in the Cyrillic alphabet.
This book provides a thorough coverage of this limited topic into a efficient, relatively small package. A well done, useful reference book.
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