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  2. List of historical currencies - Wikipedia

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    1 Ancient Mediterranean. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of historical currencies. Ancient Mediterranean. Greece ...

  3. History of money - Wikipedia

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    Ancient China, Africa, and India used cowry shells. [3] The Mesopotamian civilization developed a large-scale economy based on commodity money. The shekel was the unit of weight and currency, first recorded c. 2150 BC, which was nominally equivalent to a specific weight of barley that was the preexisting and parallel form of currency.

  4. Category:Ancient currencies - Wikipedia

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  5. List of circulating currencies - Wikipedia

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    Colour key and notes Indicates that a given currency is pegged to another currency (details) Italics indicates a state or territory with a low level of international recognition State or territory Currency Symbol [D] or Abbrev. ISO code Fractional unit Number to basic Abkhazia Abkhazian apsar [E] аҧ (none) (none) (none) Russian ruble ₽ RUB Kopeck 100 Afghanistan Afghan afghani ؋‎ AFN ...

  6. List of currencies - Wikipedia

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    A list of all currencies, current and historic. The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region. The local name of the currency is used in this list, with the adjectival form of the country or region.

  7. Currency - Wikipedia

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    Originally, currency was a form of receipt, representing grain stored in temple granaries in Sumer in ancient Mesopotamia and in Ancient Egypt. In this first stage of currency, metals were used as symbols to represent value stored in the form of commodities. This formed the basis of trade in the Fertile Crescent for over 1500 years.

  8. How the world's currencies got their names - AOL

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  9. Shell money - Wikipedia

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    The Classical Chinese character radical for "money/currency", 貝, originated as a pictograph of a cowrie shell. [12] Cowrie shell imitation in green bone, China, Western Zhou Dy (1046 BC–771 BC)-Jin State; length: 40.3 mm. Cowries or kaudi were used as means of exchange in India since ancient times up to around 1830