In ancient Egypt, grain, cattle, and precious metals like gold and silver served as commodity money. Cowry shells were used as currency in various parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific islands. Salt ...

In ancient Egypt, grain, cattle, and precious metals like gold and silver served as commodity money. Cowry shells were used as currency in various parts of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific islands.

This Celtic gold "ring money" from Ireland, may be 3500 years old. Nathan Lewis. What all these “commodity monies” have in common is: They are found only in primitive societies.

The Kingdom of Wudie (in modern-day Myanmar) circulated silver and shell currencies, with each silver coin exchangeable for more than 11,520 shells or 10 taels of Zhongtong paper money. The ...

The use of commodity money can be traced back to ancient civilizations, where goods were used as currency. However, it was the emergence of metal currency as a new medium of exchange that had a ...

(WYTV)Paper, coins, and bitcoin, also the plastic in your wallet, are all forms of money we use today. But the very first form of currency is probably, the cow, dating back to 9000, BC. The words ...

Highlights: * Chocolate was once sacred, medicinal, and even used as money by ancient Mesoamerican civilizations * Dark ...

Can't decide if gold is a commodity? ... when the ancient Egyptians ... date to between 500 and 600 B.C.E. Gold continued to be a leading source of currency until the introduction of paper money.

A metal detectorist discovered ancient gold coins in the Netherlands that turned out to be a cult ritual offering. Experts believe the money left at the location was “devil’s money,” an ...

What is money, really and what do we actually know about how it works? In this episode of the Clear Crypto Podcast, anthropologist Bill Maurer traces money’s roots from ancient Mesopotamia to ...