many places, various forms of barter still apply.

Coinage

The prevalence of metal coins possibly led to the metal itself being the store of value: first copper, then both silver and gold, and at one point also bronze. Today other non-precious metals are used for coins. Metals were mined, weighed, and stamped to produce coins. This was to assure the individual accepting the coin that they were getting a certain known weight of precious

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