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Introduction Trading Birth of Money The First Coins U.S. Money Trail Mint Act “Greenbacks” Now What? Quiz |
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If
I went to the shoemaker with my corn and he already had enough corn, then
I was out of luck. I couldn’t get a pair of shoes.
To
solve this problem, the next logical thing to do was to develop a type
of system that anyone could use, all of the time. This invention, so to
speak, was our current system of money.