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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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The 2007–2008 financial crisis, or the global financial crisis (GFC), was the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression. Predatory lending in the form of subprime mortgages targeting low-income homebuyers, excessive risk-taking by global financial institutions, a continuous buildup of toxic assets within banks, and the bursting of the United States housing bubble culminated in a "perfect storm", which led to the Great Recession.

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The hryvnia (/(hə)ˈrɪvniə/ (hə-)RIV-nee-ə; Ukrainian: гривня [ˈɦrɪu̯nʲɐ] ^ⓘ, abbr. : грн hrn; sign: ₴; code: UAH) has been the national currency of Ukraine since 2 September 1996. The hryvnia is divided into 100 kopiyok. It is named after a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus'. (Full article...)

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  Image 1Banknotes and coins (from Money)
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  Image 2Huizi currency, issued in 1160 (from Money)
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  Image 3Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 4Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, reverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 5Paper money from different countries (from Money)
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  Image 6Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 7Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 8Sino 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 9US dollar banknotes (from Money)
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  Image 10A hoard of mostly Mauryan punch-marked coins (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 11Banknotes of different currencies with a face value of 5000 (from Money)
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  Image 12Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 13Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 14A check, used as a means of converting funds in a demand deposit to cash (from Money)
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  Image 15A 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 16Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money (from Money)
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  Image 17Punch-marked coins discovered from Chandraketugarh. (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 18Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 19A person counts a bundle of different Swedish banknotes. (from Money)
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  Image 20Tibetan 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 21Tibetan 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 22President J. K. Paasikivi illustrated in a former Finnish 10 mark banknote from 1980 (from Money)
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  Image 23Printing paper money at a printing press in Perm (from Money)
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  Image 24"Bent bar" minted under Achaemenid administration, Gandhara, c.350 BC. (from Punch-marked coins)
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  Image 25Gold 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 26Money Base, M1 and M2 in the U.S. from 1981 to 2012 (from Money)
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  Image 27A 1914 British gold sovereign (from Money)
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  Image 28Sino 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 29Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, obverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 30Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
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  Image 31Athens 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 32TengaofMuhammad Khudayar Khan, struck at the Kokand mint, dated 1862–1863 (from Kokand tenga)
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  Image 33Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)

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