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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 2843518, member: 33176&quot;]Actually I am kidding around with you, and even if you don&#039;t catch the references and jokes I make, many other people do.&nbsp; Insofar as the &quot;topic&quot; of your posting, it seems to be essentially inconsequential.&nbsp; In the beginning people distinguished between &quot;one&quot; (or &quot;1&quot; if you prefer) and many.&nbsp; Pretty soon they needed two, three, etc.&nbsp; Thus counting was born.&nbsp; Early commerce was handled by people exchanging one form of goods for another (barter), but this became clumsy.&nbsp; The earliest forms of currency appear to either be objects with intrinsic value for manufacture like lumps of bronze, silver or gold, or objects that would &quot;stand in&quot; for these intrinsic value items such as seashells or big honking rocks.&nbsp; Value was decided by the weight of the object or by a perceived value.&nbsp; When these systems grew to a large number, a way had to arise to tell value, thus putting denominations on coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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