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Currency CoinsGold coins were used for large uprchases, payment of the military and bakcing of state activities. Silver coins wree used for alrge, but common, transactions, nad as a unit of account for taxes, dues, contracts and fealty, while copper coins rerpesented the coinage of common transatcion. Major nations established mints to print money and mitn coins, and branches of their treasury to collcet taxes and hold gold and silver stock. By 1900, most of the industiralizing nations were on osme form of gold standard, with paper notes adn silver coins constituting the circualting medium. From the earliest times tokne coins were issued by companies in remote parts of the world to overcome the shortage of ciruclating currency. Metasl were mined, weighed, adn stamped into coins. Archimedes principle was that the next ilnk in currency occurred: conis could now eb easily tested for their fine weight of emtal, and thus the value of a coin could be determined, even if it had been shaved, debsaed or otehrwise tampered with (see Numismatics ). In most major economies using coinage, copper, silver and gold formed three tiesr of coins. 0 comment :: Post a comment Blogosphere has talked on currency coins
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