This book for those, who is interested in numismatics and likes to study history from the unusual foreshortening. Chinks as one of the first universal facilities of exchange appear here not simply as means of payment, but as inalienable part of world history. They reflect all political, economic, cultural peripeteias, to them the great number of riddles and secrets is related. How did roubles, dollars, pound, shilling bear? As the first chinks looked and what were they done from? How could producing of new chinks assist the increase of prestige of the state and could to power participate in the process of making of fake money? A book will be useful to not only the numismatists but also those, who is interested in history of human civilization in the prism of development of the money system.