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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 7 days ago

'Knife Money', China, 1st millennium BCE

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'Knife Money', China, 1st millennium BCE

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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryArtifacts@piefed.socialEnglish · 7 days ago
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  • PugJesus@piefed.socialOPM
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    7 days ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knife_money

  • Ex Nummis@lemmy.world
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    Those seem incredibly inconvenient for anything other than small payments. Then again the Romans were using huge lumps of (initially unrefined) bronze as currency around the same time.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    Can’t fool me, them’s poop knives.

  • usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca
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    I like envisioning someone with stacks of these looped to their belt like cams on a trad-climber’s rack.

    Do you think they had a proto carabiner to carry these?

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      Probably a loop of leather with a simple clasp.

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    We have shit-money in my country for the last 30 years.

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