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118 B.C. Leather Currency: Leather money was used... | Sutori

Copy of The History of Money and Usage

118 B.C. Leather Currency: Leather money was used in China in the form of one-foot-square pieces of white deerskin with colorful borders. This could be considered the first documented type of banknote.