HISTORY

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  • MONEY
    -an object anything that circulates widely as a medium of exchange for goods and services.
    -defined by the functions it serves in the economy
  • SALT
    Latin word salarium, which also means "salary" and has the root sal, or "salt."
  • MONEY
    Latin word moneta with the meaning "coin" via French monnaie. The Latin word is believed to originate from a temple of Juno from rome.
  • CAPITAL
    means asset -Latin word capita (head)
  • SALARY
    salário (compensation normally in money)
  • Date took form of paper notes issued by private banks.
    19th century
  • BARTER
    exchange of merchandise for merchandise without value equivalence.
    an elementary form of trade, found among people of primitive economies
  • COMMODITY MONEY
    assumed role of currency, circulating as an element of exchange for other products and used to assess their value
  • Cattle
    (bovine)-moves,reproduction & render service. Risk: disease and death commodity money in portugal
  • SALT
    difficult to obtain, interior part of continent, used to preserve food commodity money in portugal
  • Percunta
    money in portugese
  • pecúlio
    accumulated money derived from Latin word pecus (cattle)
  • COWRY
    commodity money in Brazil, brought by africans
  • Brazil wood, sugar, cocoa, tobacco and cloth
    exchanged in Maranhao in 17th century (traded in the form of yarn ball, skeins and fabrics)
  • 3 reasons COMMODITIES BECAME INCONVENIENT
    Changes in their value
    Being indivisible and easily perishable
  • 4 ADVANTAGES OF METAL
    Possibility of treasuring
    Dvisibility
    Easy transportation
    Beauty
  • METAL EXCHANGED IN DIFFERENT FORMS
    -natural state to ingots (a block of metal, typically in oblong shape)
    -transformed to objects (rings, bracelets etc.)
  • REQUIREMENTS OF TRADING METAL
    Weight assessment and assaying of its purity.
    Later gained, definite form and weight, a mark indicating value
  • 4 REASONS WHY METAL INCREASED IN VALUE
    its production
    knowledge in melting
    knowing where it could be found in nature
    the task was not at reach for everyone.
  • Talent
    copper or bronze coin with form of animal skin circulated in Greece and Cyprus
  • Athenian Owls
    silver coins issued by Athens featuring the owl of Athena
  • 7TH CENTURY B.C.
    when first coins resembling current ones appeared
  • MINTING
    the process of manufacturing coins using a kind of stamping
  • LYDIA
    coins made of -small oval ingots made of electrum (gold and silver alloy)
  • ALEXANDER THE GREAT OF MACEDONIA 330 B.C.
    -first effigy in coins
    -replaced athenian owls
  • ALEXANDERS
    term referred to effigy of coins of alexander the great of macedonia
  • GOLD STATERS
    -gold alexanders
  • TETRADRACHMS
    -silver alexanders
  • 700 B.C Lydians
    became the first western culture to make coins
  • GOLD AND SILVER
    First metals used in coinage
  • 5 REASONS GOLD AND SILVER USED FOR COINAGE
    Rarity
    Beauty
    Immunity to corrosion
    Economic value
    Old religious habits
  • MINITING
    Guaranteed by their INTRINSIC value meaning trade value of metal was used in production.
    Gold-highest value
    Silver & Copper- lesser value
  • Minting using Cupro-nickel & metal alloys
    End of last century, focused on EXTRINSIC value meaning face-value is independent from their metal content
  • FIRST BANK NOTES
    made in Brazil by Banco do Brasil on 1810
  • TANG DYNASTY (A.D 618-907)
    when the Chinese first used paper bills
  • Mickey Mouse Money
    (Japanese issued) in World War II since value of money was low might as well be “play money”
  • ELECTRONIC MONEY
    -is an electronic store of monetary value on a technical device that may be used for making payments to entities other than the e-money issuer
  • STATER
    small coins found in Found in Aradus, Phenicia
  • THALER
    made on 17th century, a Swedish copper piece
  • 3 DIFFERENT SHAPES OF COINS
    Oval
    Square
    polygonal