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Ancient Egyptians were makin metal rings which some historians think they used as money.
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If in the 1700 personar a pirate worked into your shop he might try to pay in pieces of eight.
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In 1685 Canadian began to use paper money too and this inovation led to a huge increase in the internacional trade
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By 1600 AD Europeans were using more and more metal coins, made with the metal taken from their colonies overseal.
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Rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapons
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It seems that over time these may have transformed into easier to handle discs of metal beacause in Lydia between 700 and 600BC the first coins, as we would recognice them, were made.
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In the modern world many people use plactis cards called debit cards to pay for things, people also use money they do not even have yet by paying with credics cards.