THE HISTORY OF MONEY

By Athletic99
  • 2500 BCE

    EGYPTIANS

    Ancient Egyptians were making metal rings which some historians think they used as money.
  • 1100 BCE

    CHINESE

    In china, rather than exchanging objects like tools and weapons, a system of using miniature replicas of the objects.
  • Period: 700 BCE to 600 BCE

    FIRST COINS

  • More metal coins

    Europeans were using more and more metal coins, made with metal taken from their colonies overseas.
  • Period: to

    1700-1800

  • Threepenny scrapped.

  • Money nowadays

    When somebody give you a pound fora box of tea bags, you have confidence that the pound will buy the same amount goods tomorrow as it does today. Many people use plastic cards called debit cards to pay for things.