History of Money: The invention of money took place before the beginning of written history. Consequently, any story of how money first developed is mostly based on conjecture and logical inference. The significant evidence establishes many things were bartered in ancient markets that could be described as a medium of exchange . These included livestock and grain–things directly useful in themselves – but also merely attractive items such as cowrie shells or beads were exchanged for more useful commodities . However, such exchanges would be better described as barter , and the common bartering of a particular commodity (especially when the commodity items are not fungible) does not technically make that commodity " money " or a " commodity money " like the shekel – which was both a coin representing a specific weight of barley , and the weight of that sack of barley. Due to the complexities of ancient history (ancient c...
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