MONEY FROM ACIENT TIME
The history of money spans thousands of years. Numismatics is the scientific study of money and its history in all its varied forms.
Many items have been used as commodity money such as naturally scarce precious metals, cowry shells, barley, beads etc., as well as many other things that are thought of as having value.
Modern money (and most ancient money) is essentially a token — in other words, an abstraction. Paper currency is perhaps the most common type of physical money today. However, objects of gold or silver present many of money's essential properties.
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