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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 currency is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general definition is that a currency is a system of money in common use within a specific environment over time, especially for people in a nation state. Under this definition, the British Pound sterling (£), euros (€), Japanese yen (¥), and U.S. dollars (US$) are examples of (government-issued) fiat currencies. Currencies may act as stores of value and be traded between nations in foreign exchange markets, which determine the relative values of the different currencies. Currencies in this sense are either chosen by users or decreed by governments, and each type has limited boundaries of acceptance; i.e., legal tender laws may require a particular unit of account for payments to government agencies.

Other definitions of the term currency appear in the respective synonymous articles: banknote, coin, and money. This article uses the definition which focuses on the currency systems of countries. (Full article...)

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The Latvian lats (plural: lati, plural genitive: latu, second Latvian lats ISO 4217 currency code: LVL) was the currency of Latvia from 1922 until 1940 and from 1993 until it was replaced by the euro on 1 January 2014. A two-week transition period during which the lats was in circulation alongside the euro ended on 14 January 2014. The lats is abbreviated as Ls and was subdivided into 100 santīmi (singular: santīms; from French centime), abbreviated as an s after the santīm amount.

The Latvian lats has been recognized as one of the 99 entries of the Latvian Culture Canon. (Full article...)

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... that according to legend, the Jain temple of Pisanhari Ki Marhia was built by a poor old woman who saved up money by milling flour?
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... that Russian indie artist polnalyubvi bought her first guitar with money earned from busking with her violin?
... that barley was once used as a form of money?
... that the manager of WVSS at the University of Wisconsin–Stout spent about $6,000 of his own money to buy more than 500 classical music CDs to program the station?
... that Bull Island was farmed by the Money family for over 100 years before being turned into a wildlife preserve?
... that Starbucks raised money for HIV/AIDS research using their red holiday cups?
... that people are robbing Lebanese banks to get their own money back?

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Image 1A 640 BC one-third stater electrum coin from Lydia (from Money)
Image 2Paper money from different countries (from Money)
Image 3Punch-marked coins discovered from Chandraketugarh. (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 4Tenga of Muhammad Khudayar Khan, struck at the Kokand mint, dated 1862–1863 (from Kokand tenga)
Image 5Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 6Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 7Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 8Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 9A check, used as a means of converting funds in a demand deposit to cash (from Money)
Image 10Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, reverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 11Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791),reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 12Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money (from Money)
Image 13A person counts a bundle of different Swedish banknotes. (from Money)
Image 14Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 15Athens 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 16Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, obverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 17Banknotes and coins (from Money)
Image 18US dollar banknotes (from Money)
Image 19President J. K. Paasikivi illustrated in a former Finnish 10 mark banknote from 1980 (from Money)
Image 20A 1914 British gold sovereign (from Money)
Image 21"Bent bar" minted under Achaemenid administration, Gandhara, c.350 BC. (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 22Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 23Banknotes of different currencies with a face value of 5000 (from Money)
Image 24Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 25Printing paper money at a printing press in Perm (from Money)
Image 26Money Base, M1 and M2 in the U.S. from 1981 to 2012 (from Money)
Image 27A hoard of mostly Mauryan punch-marked coins (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 28Gold coins are an example of legal tender that are traded for their intrinsic value, rather than their face value. (from Money)
Image 29Huizi currency, issued in 1160 (from Money)
Image 30Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, reverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 31Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, obverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 32Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script,obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 33Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)