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<blockquote data-quote="Benjamin Olson" data-source="post: 9066001" data-attributes="member: 6988941"><p>"Currency" existed, it just wasn't in the form of coin yet. While all sorts of things were used as currency, the direct predecessors to coin were ingots of various metals produced in standardized sizes and shapes, which are believed to have been used by many bronze age societies as units of exchange. Really the main thing making them "not coin" was simply that they were large sizes more appropriate for practical use than convenient for carrying around. Allegedly the weird, reactionary Spartans continued to use heavy iron bars instead of coin well into the Classical era and through the height of their power, and although modern scholarship has cast doubt on this, the fact that other Classical era people believed the Spartans did this and considered it old fashioned is at least evidence that there was cultural memory of metal ingots being the predecessor to coins.</p><p></p><p>In a D&D bronze age society diamonds and weights of diamond dust seem like a form of currency that would probably see some use. And given that some early Chinese coins were in the shapes of the shells they had previously used, it would be a good detail for a later D&D setting to have the heroes find an ancient trove of electrum coins in the shape of diamonds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Benjamin Olson, post: 9066001, member: 6988941"] "Currency" existed, it just wasn't in the form of coin yet. While all sorts of things were used as currency, the direct predecessors to coin were ingots of various metals produced in standardized sizes and shapes, which are believed to have been used by many bronze age societies as units of exchange. Really the main thing making them "not coin" was simply that they were large sizes more appropriate for practical use than convenient for carrying around. Allegedly the weird, reactionary Spartans continued to use heavy iron bars instead of coin well into the Classical era and through the height of their power, and although modern scholarship has cast doubt on this, the fact that other Classical era people believed the Spartans did this and considered it old fashioned is at least evidence that there was cultural memory of metal ingots being the predecessor to coins. In a D&D bronze age society diamonds and weights of diamond dust seem like a form of currency that would probably see some use. And given that some early Chinese coins were in the shapes of the shells they had previously used, it would be a good detail for a later D&D setting to have the heroes find an ancient trove of electrum coins in the shape of diamonds. [/QUOTE]
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