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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Gold, silver and copper are limited, durable and maleable enough to be mint, few other materials have these properties. There have been other things used as currency (cocoa beans) but usually you want something that doesn’t grow back or that gets used up
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