In Search Of The Eternal Coin: A Long Finance View Of History

"In Search of the Eternal Coin: A Long Finance View of History" provides a history of the eternal coin. Richard Veryard summarises some of the main themes of the paper: "The eternal coin is an imaginary construct (Cooper calls it a thought experiment), so it's a curious kind of history, retelling the past through the lens of an imagined future. Cooper singles out a number of historical vignettes, which display different elements of a system of value. Cooper’s vignettes can be grouped into four types of economic system, and the coin plays a significantly different role in each."

This free-to-download report was published as part of the Eternal Brevities series in March 2010:

Related Events

• In Search of the Eternal Coin: A Long Finance View of History, Publication Launch, Long Finance roundtable in collaboration with Gresham College, 25 March 2010

Related Articles

• Malcom Cooper, Ian Harris and Michael Mainelli, "Storing Value: The Eternal Coin", IPE Magazine, November 2010
• Michael Mainelli, " The Eternal Coin", Quintessence, BNP Paribas, Spring 2010
• Michael Mainelli, " The Eternal Coin - Made From Real Money: Risks In Fiat Currencies", Journal of Risk Finance, volume 11, number 1, January 2010

In the Media

• IPE, "Inflation Assets: the Eternal Coin", 1 November 2010
• Finextra, "The Eternal Coin or Eternal Value", 26 March 2010