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Broke? Try Paying Like Our Ancestors, With Shells, Beans

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 21, 2009 2:43 PM CDT

(Newser) – Sure, the global economy might collapse spectacularly and send us all back to a barter system. But that’s inefficient, Greg Sabin writes on Mental Floss, and “almost all civilizations have come up with currencies.” A sampling of what might be in your...   Read full story »

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