English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins

"English Coins and Tokens, with a Chapter on Greek and Roman Coins" by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt is a historical exploration of money that journeys into the past to understand the story of English coins and tokens, looking at where they came from, the different kinds that were made, and why they mattered, while also glancing at the coin systems used by the ancient Greeks and Romans; it starts in ancient Britain, suggesting that coins first appeared through trade with the Gauls, especially in Kent, while recognizing challenges in figuring out when and how the ancient Britons started making coins, guessing it was about 150 to 200 years before Christ, looking at early coin types, how their designs changed, and whether they had writing on them and showing how Greek and later Roman cultures affected British money, using clues from digs and historical ideas to build a base for studying coins.