7 interesting facts about money
Forming / / December 19, 2019
In the world there exists a few people who are completely indifferent to money. Some of their worship, others hate and blame for all the problems. We will try not to support any of the parties, and just look at money as one of the most interesting elements of our reality.
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The word "coin" came to us from ancient Rome. The Roman goddess Juno was the title of Coin, which translated from Latin means "cautionary" or "counselor." It was near the temple of the goddess were workshops where minted coinage. Products of these workshops came to be called the coins, and in English by the word was the common name of money - money.
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Despite the fact that in ancient Greece there were States "normal" money in Sparta deliberately used as money cumbersome and impractical iron bars. This was done to ensure that the Spartans did not aspire to wealth and less stealing and giving bribes.
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The world-famous today, the dollar sign ($) existed before the advent of the US currency and all
U.S.A. It was initially used to refer to Mexican pesos, widely traded in the United States prior to minting its own coins. A study of the documents of the era showed that the sign was formed at the confluence of the letters P and S in the acronym Ps, is used to refer to pesos.— 4 —
The heaviest coin in the world is today considered the gold coin produced by the Mint Perth (Australia). Its weight is exactly 1 ton. It is made of gold 999-th sample has a diameter of 80 cm and a thickness of 12 cm. Rated giant cost - $ 1 million, but experts estimate that the gold bullion can be sold for about 55 million.
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Name Isaac Newton for many of us associated with the mythical apple and the law of universal gravitation. However, humanity is grateful to the great scientist, not only for that. Few people know that it was he, as manager of the British Royal Mint, the coin came up with corrugations on the edges of coins. This greatly hindered their fake stitching and that was a real problem in those days, when the coins were made of precious metals.
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Usually money is worth so much, what their denomination. But this does not apply to out-of-treatment, gift and collectible items. To date, the most expensive coin is the so-called dollar "flowing hair", minted in the United States in 1794. It was sold at auction for 7.85 million dollars.
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Paper money, despite its name, is not printed on paper. They are made from a specially designed wear-resistant material made of cotton and linen. In addition, now in many countries are experimenting with new materials for banknotes, which have even more to increase their strength. So, money Australia, China, Brazil, Northern Ireland, Romania and some other countries already do from a special thin plastic.
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