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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;rick, post: 22476, member: 1235&quot;]I have only heard that coins were invented for purposes of easing trade, myself.&nbsp; I find the alternative explinations that you offered to be very interesting.&nbsp; Now that you have mentioned it, I find myself (for the first time) wondering if a coin system of trade was invented for a completely unassociated purpose than its true importance in social impact and practice.</p><p>From a standpoint of economics, one can understand the importance of the impact that coins have had on our social development.&nbsp; It delivered us from the barter system, in which every trade conducted in day to day life was a singular event horizon of itself, in which you possessed X and needed Y.&nbsp; Your objective became finding somone else that had Y and needed X - a rare occurance, to be certain.&nbsp; With the development of a coin system, it became much easier to find a person who needed X, and find another person who had Y, where the medium between the two was an agreed upon system of value.</p><p>I believe Adam Smith touched on this, at some point, in the Wealth of Nations.&nbsp; I will have to refer back and see if he has anything to add.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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