Before Money: When Humans Paid With Knives and Giant Stones
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Before Money: When Humans Paid With Knives and Giant Stones
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💰 Money is one of those things that feels like it's always existed - like gravity, or disappointing weather on a bank holiday. But for most of human history, there were no coins, no notes, and no bank accounts. So how did people actually buy things? Or did they even buy things at all?
⚡ From giant stone discs that nobody moved, to cocoa beans you could eat (or counterfeit with dirt), to handwritten scraps of paper worth a year's wages - the history of money is really the history of trust. And humans have trusted some very strange things.
💰 In this episode, we trace the weird and wonderful journey from barter to Bitcoin, and ask whether our modern money is actually the strangest version yet.
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🎧 Stay tuned to learn about:
➡ Why barter was far more annoying than your school textbook made it sound
➡ The Pacific island where a stone at the bottom of the ocean still counted as money
➡ How the Aztecs used chocolate as currency - and how people counterfeited it
➡ Ancient Chinese coins shaped like tiny knives
➡ The handwritten IOUs that launched the Bank of England - and the hundreds executed for forging them
➡ How burning old wooden money accidentally destroyed the Palace of Westminster
➡ Why the ridges on your coins exist because of medieval scammersAbout the podcast:What We Did Before is a podcast exploring the history of everyday life, from how we kept food fresh before fridges, to how we survived without shoes and what came before AI.About your hosts:Ollie Guillou is an award-winning podcast producer and broadcaster. He's co-founder of OG Podcasts, working with the likes of New Scientist, Dr Karan and Lessons From Our Mothers.Matt Pyle is a lead software developer and tech enthusiast with a keen interest in media, and a love for interesting conversation and learning.Connect with Ollie:Website: www.ogpodcasts.co.uk LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ollie-guillou Email: hello@ogpodcasts.co.uk
Image credits:
Knife Money image by PENG Yanan, 2006: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Yan_State_Coins.jpg
50 Euro Bill Watermark image by Amin, 2018: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:50_Euro_bill_watermark.jpg
Cowry Money image by Bin im Garten, 2011: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cowry_money#/media/File:Cowry_money_Monetaria_annulus_1.JPG