Money Talks: From the Mouths of Ghost Face Coins to GhostFace Killah
above:Coins from china known as Ghost face coins or Ant Nose Money.
Above: Ancient Celtic rouelle (ring money or wheel money) from France, 1st millennium BC.
above: Ancient Judean coin (I think it sold for 11 million in an auction?)
above: bone cowrie, looks like a little brain. The cowrie shell has been used as money in many parts of the world, including China, Africa and Arabia.
above: the coinage of the Lydians had been in existence for more than a millennium when paper money first emerged in China under the Tang dynasty (618 –907 AD). The early development of paper money continued during the Song dynasty (960-1279 AD).
above: Ephesos 620-600 BC.
above: ghostface coin from ancient China
above:Phoenicia Arados AR Drachm 164 BC
above: this depicts a symbol of a turtle, I think it was Egyptian
above: Ancient Chinese money, with plate
above: tool used as ancient chinese money
Image above: Tupaia, bartering a lobster perhaps? A native of Raieatea, fled to Tahiti to escape attacking forces from Bora Bora island. A man of clear intelligence, he acted as intermediary, translator, and explicator of Polynesian society for visiting European vessels. On Cook's arrival in 1769, Tupaia went on board Cook's voyage to New Zealand, Australia, and Java, where Tupaia eventually died after falling ill
What happened to Bartering?
According to the Silk Road Foundation, a form of paper currency called “flying cash” by the Chinese (since the wind could blow the paper away) was first used in the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) in China in the form of certificates which could be converted into copper or silver currency on demand at the capital. Real official paper currency was adopted early in the Song dynasty (9601279 AD, is that a real date?) when it was used in Szechuan Province where printing was first invented.
Marco Polo was impressed by the use of the paper money in China and mentioned it in his book, which is the illustrated below.
This may have helped to carry the idea to the West. He described the issue of paper money in China thus: “All these pieces of paper are issued with as much solemnity and authority as if they were of pure gold or silver; and on every piece, a variety of officials, whose duty it is, have to write their names, and to put their seals. And when all is duly prepared, the chief officer deputed by the Khan smears the Seal entrusted to him with vermilion, and impresses it on the paper, so that the form of the Seal remains printed upon it in red—the Money is then authentic. Anyone forging it would be punished with death.”
Many incongruencies remain about the origins of money. There was a substantial period in human history when bartering was the dominant force of exchange. The shift from barter towards the use of currencies was a gradual one I suppose, as it still is seen today. Anyone who has traveled outside of the US, is familiar with the bargaining between buyers and sellers in modern street bazaars across the world.
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some lyrics about the current economic situation from Ghost Face himself:
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Rich man, poor man, read the headlines
Nigga getting murdered for sport and bigger dimes
Jobs and drug wars
Living by gun law
Jailcats come home and want to take yours
As the young one, growing up broke me and my people
as the self, huh, I guess we all in the same boat
Think it, plus drinkin that 90-proof
Playin' on the roof sayin'
we need a next man to shoot...
"Motherless Child"
(feat. Raekwon the Chef)
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