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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Andy, post: 22601, member: 645&quot;]I agree with you Mike and Rick. The concept of the coin or money comes from having a system of commerce that has the use of a &quot;concrete object&quot;&nbsp; where, (as&nbsp; Mike stated before), you can have the value of a cow without owning the cow.&nbsp; As for the cow&#039;s value that like the currency being used will go up and down.&nbsp; Now if a culture finds value in a concrete object that no one else does then it will have a hard time with trade.&nbsp; That is why I think gold and to some extent silver coins came into play. Easy to travel with, compared to a cow, and accepted everywhere in the old world. GD&#039;s squares of gold, I think, was also an example of this system of commerce. Now the question is can a coin be a coin without an imprint. I think yes, if it was created for the purpose of trade and was recognized to be of a certain weight and therefore of a certain value and could be carried in hand and can be seen to differ from a gold bar.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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