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The Origins of Money
In ancient ireland, female slaves were so plentiful and important that they came to function as currency. How did that happen? And if we are trying to understand the origins of money here, isn't the fact that people are using one another as currency at all interesting or significant? Yet none of the sources on money remark much on it. In fact, such things seem almost par for the course when really big money comes into play.