A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank Act of 1844 and on the Reports of the Committees of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons on the Bank Acts |
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| Title | A Treatise on Coins, Currency, and Banking: With Observations on the Bank Act of 1844 and on the Reports of the Committees of the House of Lords and of the House of Commons on the Bank Acts Part 1 of A treatise on coins, currency, and banking, with observations on the Bank act of 1844 and on the reports of the committees of the House of lords and of the House of commons on the Bank acts, Henry Nicholas Sealy Making of the modern world. Part 2 |
| Author | Henry Nicholas Sealy |
| Publisher | Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1858 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 23 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 421 pages |
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