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Jan 1, 1100
Cattle
Cattle was used as one of the earliest forms of currency -
Jan 1, 1200
Cowrie shells
China was using cowry shells as currency -
Jan 1, 1300
Metal currency
In 1000 B.C.bronze and Copper cowrie imitations were manufactured by China at the end of the Stone Age and could be considered some of the earliest forms of metal coins -
Jan 1, 1400
Modern Coinage
Outside of China, the first coins developed out of lumps of silve -
Jan 1, 1411
Leather money
118 B.C. Leather money was used in China in the form of one-foot-square pieces of white deerskin with colorful borders. This could be considered the first documented type of banknote. -
Jan 1, 1500
The nose
A.D. 800-900 The phrase "To pay through the nose" comes from Danes in Ireland, who slit the noses of those who were remiss in paying the Danish poll tax. -
Jan 1, 1550
Paper Money
806 The first known paper banknotes appeared in China. In all, China experienced over 500 years of early paper money, spanning from the ninth through the fifteenth century. -
Potlach
1500 "Potlach" comes from a Chinook Indian custom that existed in many North American Indian cultures. It is a ceremony where not only were gifts exchanged, but dances, feasts, and other public rituals were performed -
Gov. Money
Abraham Lincoln passed the Legal Tender Act allowing the Government to issue paper money -
The first A.T.M.
This is when the first A.T.M. was make to give people money from their bank acount -
Money maked over time
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The future of money
The future of money will become all electronic their will be no more coins or paper money.
