From my twitter account this morning. Possibly best read from the bottom up....
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I was wondering if we might go back to a bartering system, since the economys are in such deep problems. There is a nice history of money at
https://www.familymoney.co.uk/financial-history/money-and-currencies/early-history-money-uk-bartering-first-1-pound-notes/
I loved to read that “King Alfred the Great (849-899) increased the number of mints to 8 as he needed enough coinage to pay his soldiers who fought successfully to prevent a Viking invasion.”
So King Alfred used the Magic Money Tree just as Her Majesty’s government does now from time to time.
Do you know were “Paying through the nose” comes from?
You can find more ancient Anglo-Saxon coinage in Scandinavia than in UK – strange?
I would not like to have been a “moneyer” in the 12th century!