HIstory of money

By shaunakay
  • 700 BCE

    Early paper money

    paper currency was first used in china in the 7th century. it took 1,000 years to make paper money.
  • 500 BCE

    first manufactured

    The first manufactured coins seems to have taken place separately in India, China, and in cities around the Aegean sea between 700 and 500 BC
  • 50 BCE

    Greek Silver

    The stater, as a Greek silver currency, first as ingots, and later as coins, circulated from the 8th century BC to AD 50.

  • wampum

    by 1637 the massachusetts bay colony declared wampum as legal tender

  • first american paper money

    American paper money first appeared in 1775 and was called the continental.