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The Ages of Gold


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"An automatic 'buy' for anyone with a touch of gold fever"
Northern Miner

"The most comprehensive history ever written on mines and markets"
World Gold Analyst

"Few people … are better qualified to have written this book than Timothy Green … (it) is undoubtedly a terrifically useful introduction to the metal for anyone wanting a reliable, expert and highly detailed 'encyclopaedia' of gold."
- Jo Young, The Jeweller

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The most comprehensive history of gold, written by the author of The World of Gold, the Gold Companion and the Millennium in Gold.

This is the history of gold mines,markets, goldsmiths and merchants,who, over the last six thousand years, made gold a symbol of wealth and power.

Building on forty years’ experience investigating the modern gold market, Timothy Green has sought out its ancient origins in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Troy, Minoan Crete, Greece, China, Rome, Byzantium, Venice and Precolumbian South America.

About the author
Tim Green is a well known author in the gold market having written The World of Gold, The Gold Companion and The Millennium in Gold. Tim also worked as a consultant on the annual gold surveys of Consolidated Gold Fields and Gold Fields Mineral Services (now GFMS) for almost three decades, focusing on the Middle East, India and the Far East.

Specifications > Author: Timothy Green
> ISBN 978-0-9555411-1-7
> 480 pages
> Hardback
> Price £33 (+ postage)
> Published 14th November 2007
Main features

Part One: The Ancient World 4000 – 1 BC
Part Two: Empires AD 1 – 1200
Part Three: New Horizons 1200 – 1700
Part Four: Gold standard: whence it came, where it went: 1700– 2000

> 12 maps
> Index
> 32 pages of illustrations

Related publications:

> Annual Gold Survey
> Gold Survey - Update 1
> Gold Survey - Update 2
> The Gold Market in China - A New Beginning?
> Gold Mining Reports
> Precious Metals Quarterly
> Precious Metals Market Briefing

How to order:
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By Phone: +44 (0) 20 7478 1750*

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