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Around, 2500 BC Ancient Egyptians were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money.
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In China, 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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In Lydia (Western Turkey). They were discs of electrum (a natural mox of silver and gold). It had pictures on them. It was minted by the Lydian king Croesus.
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Europeans were using more and more metal coins, made with metals taken from their colonies.
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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.
A Spanish eight real coin was often split up into bits to pay for things. -
In the modern world many people use plastic cards called debit cards to pay for things. The cards transfer money from their bank account to the shop´s bank account.
People also use money they don´t even have yet by paying with credits cards. They then pay the money back later.