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Money is any item or verifiable record that is generally accepted as payment for goods and services and repayment of debts, such as taxes, in a particular country or socio-economic context. The primary functions which distinguish money are: medium of exchange, a unit of account, a store of value and sometimes, a standard of deferred payment.

Money was historically an emergent market phenomenon that possessed intrinsic value as a commodity; nearly all contemporary money systems are based on unbacked fiat money without use value. Its value is consequently derived by social convention, having been declared by a government or regulatory entity to be legal tender; that is, it must be accepted as a form of payment within the boundaries of the country, for "all debts, public and private", in the case of the United States dollar.

The money supply of a country comprises all currency in circulation (banknotes and coins currently issued) and, depending on the particular definition used, one or more types of bank money (the balances held in checking accounts, savings accounts, and other types of bank accounts). Bank money, whose value exists on the books of financial institutions and can be converted into physical notes or used for cashless payment, forms by far the largest part of broad money in developed countries. (Full article...)

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Bi-metallic coins are coins consisting of two (bi-) metalsoralloys, generally arranged with an outer ring around a contrasting center. Common circulating examples include the €1, €2, United Kingdom £1 and £2, Canadian $2, South Africa R5, Egyptian £1, Turkish 1 lira and 50 kurus, Indian ₹10 and ₹20, Indonesian Rp1,000, Polish 2 and 5 zł, Czech 50 Kč, Hungarian 100 and 200 Ft, Bulgarian 1 and 2 lv., Hong Kong $10, Argentine $1 and $2, Brazilian R$1, Chilean $100 and $500, Colombian $500 and $1000, Peruvian S/2 and S/5, Albanian 100 Lekë, Thai 10 baht and all Mexican coins of $1 or higher denomination. (Full article...)

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The rubleorrouble (Russian: рубль, romanized: rublʹ; symbol: ₽; abbreviation: рубorр.inCyrillic, RubinLatin; ISO code: RUB) is the currency of the Russian Federation. The ruble is subdivided into 100 kopecks (sometimes written as copeckorkopek; Russian: копе́йка, romanized: kopeyka, pl. копе́йки, kopeyki). It is used in Russia as well as in the parts of Ukraine under Russian military occupation and in Russian-occupied partsofGeorgia.

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  Image 1A check, used as a means of converting funds in a demand deposit to cash (from Money)
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  Image 2Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 3Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 4Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 5A 1914 British gold sovereign (from Money)
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  Image 6Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, reverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 7Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money (from Money)
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  Image 8Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 9TengaofMuhammad Khudayar Khan, struck at the Kokand mint, dated 1862–1863 (from Kokand tenga)
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  Image 10"Bent bar" minted under Achaemenid administration, Gandhara, c.350 BC. (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 11Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, reverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 12Money Base, M1 and M2 in the U.S. from 1981 to 2012 (from Money)
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  Image 13Athens coin (c. 500/490-485 BC) discovered in Pushkalavati. This coin is the earliest known example of its type to be found so far east. (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 14President J. K. Paasikivi illustrated in a former Finnish 10 mark banknote from 1980 (from Money)
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  Image 15Banknotes and coins (from Money)
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  Image 16Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, obverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 17Banknotes of different currencies with a face value of 5000 (from Money)
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  Image 18A person counts a bundle of different Swedish banknotes. (from Money)
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  Image 19Paper money from different countries (from Money)
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  Image 20Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 21Printing paper money at a printing press in Perm (from Money)
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  Image 22Gold coins are an example of legal tender that are traded for their intrinsic value, rather than their face value. (from Money)
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  Image 23Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 24A 640 BC one-third stater electrum coin from Lydia. According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins. It is thought by modern scholars that these first stamped coins were minted around 650 to 600 BC. (from Money)
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  Image 25US dollar banknotes (from Money)
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  Image 26Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 27Huizi currency, issued in 1160 (from Money)
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  Image 28Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 29Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, obverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 30Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 31Punch-marked coins discovered from Chandraketugarh. (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 32A hoard of mostly Mauryan punch-marked coins (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 33Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),reverse (from Tibetan tangka)

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