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Real Fake Bridges
99% Invisible
The Origin of Paper Money
The origin of paper money is a really interesting story that, to be honest, i didn't know before i was working on the book. It takes place in china around the year a thousand a d it happened in the province of sichwan. The idea that what paper money is is a receipt, and that the thing that it is representing is silver or gold persists for a really long time. After they get rid of paper money in china, china gets poorer. And then it appears in europe a few hundred years later.
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