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History of money was a good article nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There are suggestions below for improving the article. Once these are addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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This article is conspicuously missing many examples of early money, such as the cowrie shells, and bronze imitations, which are widely regarded as the first true, standardized money. This brief Nova overview of the history of money is vastly superior to the current article, and wikipedia should aim to surpass it: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/moolah/history.html

Qwasty 05:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

What does B.P. stand for? Can somone create a link and an explenation?

BP means before present, I have added a link to the page explaining it. --PatClay 22:15, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

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In the article:

"It is said that all gold found on earth (which forms approximately a single cube 20 m a side)".

Is that 20 meters or 20 miles?

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From above, it would be metres, and my understanding is that it would be more like 75 metres to a side in any case, but that depends if we are talking about bullion reserves, or all gold mined, but it is certainly not all gold on earth (including found but unmined reserves), it seems too small. Octothorn 12:28, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

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"Total world gold production from its beginnings in prehistory through 2000 was conservatively estimated to be 142,000 t (fig. 1). This cumulative production is equivalent to a cube of gold 19.4 m on a side." This is from the top of page 8, http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2002/of02-303/OFR_02-303.pdf Butterman, W. C. and Amey, Earle B. III, Mineral Commodity Profiles–Gold, Open-File Report 02-303, U.S. Department of the Interior: U.S. Geological Survey. Other parts of this publication use "m" to refer to meters, as in "Modern methods in France and elsewhere have increased this (beating a troy ounce of gold into thin sheets) to about 18 m2 and sometimes more."Jimtpat (talk) 01:27, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

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I've added references to the cowrie shells and imitations to the "commodity money" section of the article. Feel free to elaborate on those if you have good historical sources (academic works, that is, not TV shows). I don't otherwise understand the general complaints above and below, as there is extensive and high quality discussion of coinage, commodity money, barter, and credit money. The credit money part is controversal, but not rubbish: More comments on that below.

Perhaps these complaints reflect that the article should have a better introduction. If people agree on this feel free to propose an introduction, or I will.

Meanwhile, I recommend removing the disclaimer that the article "needs attention" as it is an excellent, well above average article and readers shouldn't be discouraged from consulting it.

198.91.39.109 20:34, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

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In the last section the following claim is made: "Also the French word for money, Argent, derives from the Greek άργυρος, and translates also to silver." Surely "argent" it is from Latin "argentum"? Does anybody know the etymology for certain? Rhyolite 23:46, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

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