| A | B |
|---|
| money | item/commodity used in trade |
| Wampum | Native American money; beaded shells |
| Continentals | America's original bucks |
| Dracma | Greek coins |
| Lydians | first people the Western world to use coins |
| Spanish 8-reale | coin broken into "bits" |
| Broken notes/ wildcats | worthless notes issued by banks |
| greenbacks | US money with security markings and a green color |
| Federal reserve notes | dominant form of paper currency in USA |
| $100 bill | the largest currency note in circulation |
| $10,000 bill | largest bill ever circulated in the USA |
| barter | trade; exchange of resources or services |
| cattle | first and oldest form of money |
| cowrie | the most widely and longest used currency in history |
| China | first to manufacture coins from base metals and later, paper money |
| commodity money | coins containing precious metals |
| representative money | tokens or pieces of paper that can be exchanged for a commodity |
| fiat money | tokens or pieces of paper that cannot be redeemed for a commodity |
| 3 purposes of money | medium of exchange, standard of value, store of value |
| leather | first documented banknote made from deerskin |
| potlach | a ceremony where gifts are exchanged and rituals are performed; Native American ceremony |
| gold | standard of value in England in 1816 |
| digital cash | the future in electronic money |
| modern coinage | made from precious metals with more value |
