Community Exchange System
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The Community Exchange System is an internet-based global trading network which allows participants to buy and sell goods and services without using a national currency. It may be described as a type
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Money
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Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primar
Euro banknotes and coins
A 640 BC one-third stater electrum coin from Lydia. According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins. It is thought by modern scholars that these first stamped coins were minted around 650 to 600 BC.
Egyptian gold stater of Nectanebo II: reverse with hieroglyphs nfr-nb, minted in Egypt around 360 BC.
Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money