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2500 BC Ancient Egyptians were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money
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In china, a system of using miniature replicas of the objects to be traded were used instead of the objects themselvs
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Over the time these may have transformed into eaier to handle disc of metal becuse in Lydi between 700 and 600BC the first coins were made
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In China the first paper money was being used
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By 1600 AD Europeans were using more metal coins, made with metal taken from their colonies overseas
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In 1685 Canadian colonies began to use paper money too and this innovation led to huge increase in international trade
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in the modern world many people use plastic cards called debit cards to pay for things
