An additional merit is the proposal of an extensive, completely innovative set of technical terms for the so very diverse phenomena of the monetary world. Admittedly, it is true that all these newly coined terms, mostly derived from the Greek (lytric, hylic, autometallic, papiroplatic, etc.), by their very quantity - an index of them at the end of the book takes up more than two closely printed pages - at times have a rather perplexing effect and throughout require great attention from the reader; nevertheless, on the whole I regard them as a great step forward, since without exception they mark real conceptual distinctions, which are far too often overlooked in the conventional literature on money, but which will not be so easily obliterated having once been fixed in place by a well-chosen technical expression. That it has taken a not insignificant amount of work and considerable discretion in the choice of words to set forth these terms goes without saying.