For example most regions had a rural/ agrarian economy and could have used cattle horns. It would have represented their amount of cattle they had and therefore their actual wealth.
I think there is a small group of people in africa doing something like that with fish right now.
So why settle for metal coins?
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There was a great “Planet Money” podcast episode recently (might have been a rerun) that discussed why gold was such a great currency. They essentially went down the periodic table and eliminated what would be good as a currency and what wouldn’t and surprisingly gold worked out to be the best option available. Very insightful.
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