HISTORY OF MONEY

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600 BCE

The first region in the world to use an industrial facility to create coins that could be used as currency was on the European continent, in an area called Lydia (modern western Turkey), around 600 BC. WITH.

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5000

The Mesopotamian shekel, the first famous form of currency, originated almost 5,000 years ago. on the minor continent of Asia, where the elites of Lydia and Ionia used stamped gold and silver coins to pay armies.

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10,000

What is money? But over the last 10,000 years, the material form that money has taken has changed considerably—from cattle and cowrie shells to today's electronic currency.