A Brief History of Money
Know where it was, see where it’s going.
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4 min readOct 15, 2020
Historians believe that money was invented much earlier than writing, perhaps anywhere from 6 to 9 thousand years ago. Unsurprisingly, the early history of money is not well-documented.
Before the invention of money, people in need of goods or services would enter into an agreement to trade, or barter. Bartering did not work…
