Which came first-coins or paper money(like dollars)?
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Coins. Many years ago we were using coins made of gold and silver because the coin itself had value. Paper=not valuable, so paper money was not first.
447084
"he United States minted coins for the Philippines from 1903-1945. These coins came in 1/2 centavo (minted only 1903-1908 with 17.7 million coins; yet unpopular with public and so were discontinued), 1 centavo, 5 centavo, 10 centavo, 20 centavo, 50 centavo, and 1 peso varieties. The 1/2 and 1 centavo coins were bronze, the 5 centavo nickel, the 10, 20, 50 centavo and peso coins were silver. From 1903-1906, the silver coins had a high content (90% silver, also known as coin silver). The composition was reduced in 1907, due to a jump in silver prices."\n\nThat won't help if you're just wanting to know if that one that YOU have is silver. Sorry. You could take it to a pawn shop... maybe a bank.
604316
One coin is not a ten-cent piece, but the other one is.  You have a 5- and a 10-cent piece.
1022590
The first form of currency in the indian subcontinent was what is now known as the sand dollar, however their most successful form of exchange was trade among staples in and of their culture.
551880
paper money used to be gold and silver certificates, which meant if you went to fort knox and gave them this paper money theyd give you its equivalent in gold or silver. now we dont need to do that anymore =)
1181389
$100\n\nThere was only as high as a $100,000 bill from the 1930's to my knowlege. A collector's item $1,000,000 was printed in 1988 on real currency paper, but they're only selling for $15-50 a piece. There was never a real $1,000,000 bill printed by the U.S. Treasury.
276592
The website below should help a lot. There's a photo of a coin they used to use before they converted to the Euro, and a short history of what types of money they used and when.\nHope it helps!
588107
paper money or paper bills.  the whole world laughed at the chinesse people for that but, look who's laughing now!
661834
In 1933 the gold standard for money ceased.  Paper money was represented by silver for a little time after that. I vaguely remember my parents searching for silver certificates - dollars backed by silver - because the newspaper had a reward for them.  I don't know why some still think we're still on a gold standard.
252340
On American money the year of issue is printed on each bill and coin, did you try looking at your money for issue dates? That would be a good place to start..........
1030894
The origin seems to be unknown - and be aware of the fact, that in earlier days it was a 1 dollar coin.\n(see link)
135086
back a while in history, the equivalent of the dollar coin was breakable into eight pieces, each piece was a bit.\n\ni'm not sure if my memory is correct, but i think the english, the spanish, and early americans all did this.\n\nSo two bits is 2/8, or 1/4 of a dollar, so... $0.25
488022
It's all in your mind.  Some grades of paper are better than others (subjective measurement), and some metals used in coinage are more or less pure than others (also subjective, in terms of relative value, but objective in terms of purity).\n\nBut the 'value' assigned to currency is up to the marketplace to determine.
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I don't think there was an official currency as Italy did not exist as a state before 1861.  The country was divided into independent states that were ruled separately by foreign nations; primarily Austria, but also Spain and France.\n\nThere were however a number of different currencies like the lira, such as the Vatican lira and the San Marinese lira.\n\nThe lira was also the currency of the Napoleonic kingdom from 1807-1814
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The first documented coins seem to have been issued in India between 600-700 BC.
452919
i'm not sure how accurate this is but apparently the dollar ($) symbol originally started off as a letter "U" superimposed onto a letter "S" to indicate that the currency was from the US and over time the bottom of the U was dropped off as the dollar was adopted by other countries so it was just left as an S with 2 vertical lines through it.\ni'm not too sure about the other currency symbols though.
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Of course.  Money is money, right?  Save up enough pennies eventually you have a dollar.  Save up enough dollars eventually you have.....well, I think you get the idea.  Out of all the coins, the penny has always had a special place in my heart.  Poor thing just ends up sitting somewhere waiting....either in a change jar or a wallet or a public restroom floor.  People see a quarter and, sure, they forget that old crink in the back and immediately bend down to pick it up.  Wouldn't do that for the penny.  I guess all my grandmother's lectures of what it was like to live during the depression rest somewhere in the front of my mind.