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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Kentucky, post: 2854068, member: 33176&quot;]Erol aside, the question and concept is kind of interesting.&nbsp; Obviously the only function of money is to transfer property.&nbsp; In the earliest days, the answer was barter.&nbsp; When the items of commerce became too big to easily transfer (a cow or pig or some such), something had to come to represent the commodity.&nbsp; This had to be something that was fairly unique or commerce would be undone by counterfeiting.&nbsp; Also, there were certain items of commerce that were inherently valuable (gold, silver, copper, bronze, gemstones).&nbsp; It stands to reason that one marker could represent one commodity (one Chinese knife money equals one cow), but when people started to deal in more bulk, the design or size of the exchange media had to change to reflect this.&nbsp; Or I might be wrong...never mind.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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