From the buckskin that gave us the term a "buck" to people actually using cheese as a form of payment when they didn't have money!! Subscribe to Talltanic http://goo.gl/wgfvrr 9. Parmigiano Reggiano Italian cheese can be so good that some people will even take it as a form of currency. Molto Bene! In northern Italy wheel of cheese can be worth about $340. During times of recessions, debt collector have been known to take some tasty cheese as forms of payment. Really not a bad idea if you think about it. Even if times get rough, people are always going to be willing to pay for some good fromaggio. One bank’s warehouse is believed to hold of over 17,000 tons of cheese which is worth about 187.5 million dollars total! 8. Payphone Tokens In some places in Africa, the currency is not too reliable. While everyone enjoys talking on the phone and legitimate currency must be used in order to buy payphone tokens, there are many places who will actually accept payphone tokens as a form of payment. Mobile phone tokens have actually became the payment method of choice in some places. 7. Quintillion Pengo With just one banknote you could be a Quintillionaire in Hungary. In case you need that in other words, that's 1 billion, 1 billion times! Only problem here with this was, during World War II, prices in Hungary doubled nearly every 15 minutes! Making it almost impossible to keep up with the bank notes. So even 100 quintillion pengos were only worth about 30 cents making them seem rich but just the opposite is the case. 6. Shell Money Due to recent findings, archeologists believe that shells could have been used as money since about 3,200 years ago in the Solomon Islands. One string of shells is still worth about 1000 Solomon dollars and they are most often used as jewelry. If you get in a fight with your girlfriend from the Solomon Islands it may be better to get them a string of shells instead of roses. They’re often used as peace or marital offerings and during bridal ceremonies making them quite useful and valuable. The specific shells you see in this photo are becoming quite rare and the value is steadily increasing. Necklaces like these take a long amount of time and labor to producing, making them almost like the gold of the pacific islands. 5. Rai Stones If you thought going to the bank was annoying here, wait until you go to the Island of Yap! What seems like a large worthless stone was considered a form of currency in Micronesia on the Island of Yap. Each stone varies in price and the value was based on it’s history more than the size. Rumor has it, the more people who died trying to transport the block the more value it has. They began being used in 500 AD and are amazingly still in use as a local form of currency! 4. Canadian Tire Money Canadian Tire is almost like your canadian version of target or walmart and is a popular place to buy a large variety of items. When Canadian Tire released customer reward tactic with their own design of currency, the idea became so popular that everyone wanted to collect these and they were eventually able to be traded in for real currency. Some people when accept them in shops as money. Customers would also get valuable coupons on the back of them adding to their value. Buy a hockey stick get a free bucket of maple syrup coupon was by far worth the most. Some notes can be worth at least 25 dollars! 3. Bitcoins Bitcoins are a new type of digital currency in order to transfer funds online with some discreteness. Each bitcoin is worth about 650 dollars each currently and are most often used for purchasing illegal drugs, weapons or other things on the blackmarket or on the website known as the Silk Road. You would never technically carry a bitcoin with you in your wallet, since they’re kept in your bitcoin wallet online. Many business owners are still unsure about this new currency. Regardless, there are at least 21 million bitcoins in circulation today. 2. Salt Salt has played a crucial role as a form of currency especially early civilization in Asia and Africa. Without the modern refrigeration techniques were used to today, salt was the main way to preserve meats and was even used as tax payments in China by the emperor Yu. In Ancient Rome, soldiers were paid with salt as a form as currency. The latin word, “salarium” is the base for words like salary and soldier. 1.Knife Money Knife money provided the people with two important things; weapons and currency. This appeared in China around 600 BC during the time of the Zhou dynasty. Most knife money was engraved with a simple word like “sheep” or “fish” which would determine how much a certain knife coin would be worth.
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