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Cattle was used as one of the earliest forms of currency
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China was using cowry shells as currency
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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
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Outside of China, the first coins developed out of lumps of silve
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Abraham Lincoln passed the Legal Tender Act allowing the Government to issue paper money
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This is when the first A.T.M. was make to give people money from their bank acount
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The future of money will become all electronic their will be no more coins or paper money.
