The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 13, March 30, 2003, Article 12

LEATHER MILITARY MONEY

  Bob Leonard writes: "I wrote about the Doge Domenigo
  Michieli leather money in 1989 in "The History of Leather
  Money," for the Chicago Coin Club's CICF giveaway of a
  leather token.  This article has been reprinted a couple of
  times in numismatic publications, in The Centinel v. 37, no. 2
  (summer 1989), p. 23-29, and World Coin News v. 17, no.
  5 (Mar. 5, 1990), p. 26, 28, the latter somewhat condensed
  and revised.  My source for this item, "Leather Currency,"
  by W. Charlton (British Numismatic Journal, 1906, p. 316,
  gave the date as 1122, not 1123.  Charlton cited "Italian
  history" as his source.  Einzig, Primitive Money, also mentions
  this issue on p. 268, citing Charlton, and I found another
  source (?Alexander Del Mar, History of Monetary Systems)
  that mentioned usage at the siege of Tyre in 1124.  Though
  Charlton describes the shapes of the pieces, to the best of
  my knowledge none have been preserved."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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