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Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Origins of Money

The origins of money, it turns out, are at least five thousand years ago. Greber goes through these wonderful examples of silver and other metals being used as like international means of payment. Thousands of years later, we get coins. Coins are being minted by starting in the roughly 600 b c. It's going to be asly aronage, right?

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