stackyFACTSTalk about a liquid asset. Before Iceland decided to try (and spectacularly fail at) modern banking in the 2000s, their medieval economy was so isolated that standard currency didn't work, so they legally mandated that taxes and debts could be paid in heavily dried cod.
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