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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A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender . They are standardized in weight, and produced in large quantities at a mint in order to facilitate trade. They are most often issued by a government . Coins often have images, numerals, or text on them. The faces of coins or medals are sometimes called the obverse and the reverse , referring to the front and back sides, respectively. The obverse of a coin is commonly called heads , because it often depicts the head of a prominent person, and the reverse is known as tails .
A coin is generally made of metal or an
alloy , or sometimes of human-made materials.
Precious metal –based coins had the advantage of carrying their value within the coins themselves. On the other hand, they induced manipulations, such as the clipping of coins to remove some of the precious metal. (
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Image 1 Printing paper money at a printing press in
Perm (from
Money )
Image 2 A check, used as a means of converting funds in a
demand deposit to cash (from
Money )
Image 3 Song Dynasty
Jiaozi , the world's earliest paper money (from
Money )
Image 4 Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, reverse. (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 5 A 1914 British
gold sovereign (from
Money )
Image 6 Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), obverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 7 Punch-marked coins discovered from
Chandraketugarh . (from
Punch-marked coins )
Image 8 Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, reverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 9 A 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 )
Image 10 Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), obverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 11 Huizi currency , issued in 1160 (from
Money )
Image 12 Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,reverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 13 Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,obverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 14 Paper money from different countries (from
Money )
Image 15 Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 16 A hoard of mostly
Mauryan punch-marked coins (from
Punch-marked coins )
Image 17 Banknotes of different currencies with a face value of 5000 (from
Money )
Image 18 Money Base, M1 and M2 in the U.S. from 1981 to 2012 (from
Money )
Image 19 Gold coins are an example of legal tender that are traded for their intrinsic value, rather than their face value. (from
Money )
Image 20 Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),obverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 21 A person counts a bundle of different
Swedish banknotes. (from
Money )
Image 22 Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, obverse. (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 23 Banknotes and coins (from
Money )
Image 24 Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), obverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 25 US dollar banknotes (from
Money )
Image 26 "Bent bar" minted under Achaemenid administration,
Gandhara , c.350 BC. (from
Punch-marked coins )
Image 27 Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),reverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 28 Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, obverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 29 Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), reverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 30 Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), reverse (from
Tibetan tangka )
Image 31 Athens 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 )
Image 32 President
J. K. Paasikivi illustrated in a former Finnish
10 mark banknote from 1980 (from
Money )
Image 33 Tenga of
Muhammad Khudayar Khan , struck at the Kokand mint, dated 1862–1863 (from
Kokand tenga )
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