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When money looked like tiny bronze knives

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Nothing says 'I am ready to negotiate' like handing someone a weapon as payment. To transition away from bartering actual tools, ancient populations began casting smaller, standardized bronze replicas of knives and spades to represent value. It was a perfectly functional system, provided you didn't accidentally stab yourself while reaching into your coin purse.

When money looked like tiny bronze knives
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