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Ancient Egyptian were making metal rings, historians think they were used as money
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Rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapons, a system of using miniature replicas of the objects to be traded were used instead of the objects themselves
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Between 700 and 600Bc were made in Lydia the first coins as we would recognise them
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Around 700 and 600Bc In China the first money paper was being used
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Europeans were using more and more metal coins, made with metal taken from the colonies overseas
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They began to use paper money in Canadian colonies
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A Spanish eight real coin was often split up into bits to pay for things, leaving the bits as a change
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Nowadays people use credit cards to pay
Economic booms and crises happen when confidence in money increases or decreases
