Description:(from dust jacket) Today, no one takes a jack, queen, or king from a deck of cards to the grocery store to buy something--but at one time in North America playing-card money was issued by the government, and people used it as a medium of exchange.what is money? At various times in history it has been cattle, whale's teeth, shells, grain, furs, salt, beer, cheese, or feathers. The early cavemen needed no money, but as tribes began to range more widely, the system of barter sprang the idea of commodity money--the cow or the bag of wheat as a unit....We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Cattle To Credit Cards - The History of Money. To get started finding From Cattle To Credit Cards - The History of Money, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
168
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Meredith Press
Release
1969
ISBN
From Cattle To Credit Cards - The History of Money
Description: (from dust jacket) Today, no one takes a jack, queen, or king from a deck of cards to the grocery store to buy something--but at one time in North America playing-card money was issued by the government, and people used it as a medium of exchange.what is money? At various times in history it has been cattle, whale's teeth, shells, grain, furs, salt, beer, cheese, or feathers. The early cavemen needed no money, but as tribes began to range more widely, the system of barter sprang the idea of commodity money--the cow or the bag of wheat as a unit....We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with From Cattle To Credit Cards - The History of Money. To get started finding From Cattle To Credit Cards - The History of Money, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.