Excerpt from The Evolution of Modern Money A paper which was sent in, at the late Lord Farrer's suggestion, to the Indian Currency Com mittee of 1898, and printed in the Blue Book of 1899 (appendix I. Class C. N O. Is inserted as Appendix A., as illustrating the general prin ciples of the work in their practical application. Appendix B. Contains some variations which it seems necessary to introduce into Mommsen's theory of the reduction of the as, in the light of recent numismatic evidence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.