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Were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money.
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Rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapones, a system of using miniatures replicas of the objects to be traded were used insted of the objects themeselves
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The first coins, as we would recognise them, were made.
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The first paper money was being used.
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Europeans were using more and more metal coins, mede with metal taken from their colonies overseas.
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Canadian colonies began to use paper money too and this innovation led to a huge increase in international trade.
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A pirate walked into your shop he might try to pay in pieces of eight.