History of money -- #1 to #7 -- results from a Google search for " Money" + "History" -- top results.
9/26/09

1) http://library.thinkquest.org/28718/history.html Aimed at children -- by ThinkQuest

2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_History_of_Money_and_Banking_in_the_United_States_%28book%29 / Based on a book by the late Murray Rothbard. He is a very convincing writer -- but he is misguided on some very basic concepts. For instance he focuses only on the quantity of money when writing about inlation and virtually ignores the amount of buyable wealth.

3) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/on2/money/history.html

4) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/moolah/history.html / From PBS / Nova

5) http://library.thinkquest.org/J003358F/money.html / Aimed at children -- by ThinkQuest

6) http://www.history.com/content/money / From history.com

7) http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/RDavies/arian/llyfr.html / By Glynn and Roy Davies / Based on their book /
Davies, Glyn. A History of money from ancient times to the present day, 3rd. ed. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002. 720p. 0-7083-1717-0 (paperback). - reprinted November 2005. This is a very good source of reliable, deep-rooted information

An Abbreviated Monetary History of the US: Part 1 (C) 2002, American Monetary Institute

The History of Money -- How did money originate? - where did coins come from? - who printed the first paper money?
http://inventors.about.com/od/mstartinventions/a/money.htm / from about.com

http://www.primeronmoney.com/bookpageb2tob5.html -- By Wright Patman -- gets to the heart of the matter

How paper money first came to be

See "Creating Money Out Of Thin Air" for our version of how money is created.