• @aeronmelon
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    21 month ago

    This caused a sudden flood of elementary school memories from the 1990s. I swear my teachers talked about how some countries used nails as currency. Is this what they were talking about?

    • @PugJesusOPM
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      61 month ago

      Not quite, probably. Nails were used as currency mostly in the colonial Americas, I think, because smiths and iron were in short supply, and mostly imported from Europe - hence taking on a much greater value. Don’t quote me on that though.