Lads of Bitcoins do you know Wonder Coins
A Childhood habit I developed besides savings kept instore for future kids
It was during 2002 educational institutions, government organizations, corporate offices alike were trained on Computer Fundamentals, Windows 95, MS-Office 97 and the internet usage at my premises and that made me remember when I started collecting wonder coins with no idea of bitcoin.
Oldest trade in the world dates back to livestock barter system, then cowrie shells of the shallow waters from Pacific and Indian Oceans, was first in China replaced with bronze and copper coins, later followed by the ancient Lydian stater lumps of silver coins, known as electrum, were produced in the kingdom of Lydia, in what is now modern-day Turkey, circa 600 BCE with a sunburst of lion on its head.
The Greek, Persian, Macedonian, and eventually Roman empires refined these base metals into precious metals like silver, bronze, and gold, which had greater inherent worth than Chinese coinage. This made China to come up with Leather Money of one-foot-square pieces of white deerskin with colorful borders as a banknote of its kind.
In the early Middle Ages, you might want to have a solidus in your pocket while strolling through Europe. A gold coin with the image of Emperor Endubis would be useful when crossing Africa in the early common era. Danes in Ireland came up with Nose framin the phrase "To pay through the nose" slitting noses of those who were are neligient to pay Danish Poll Tax.China also made headlines with the first paper currency. Meanwhile Potlach, Wampum existed in many North American Indian cultures.
During 1816 England officially made Gold as the standard of value allowing production of Banknotes with non-inflation guidelines. In the United States, the Gold Standard Act was officialy enacted in 1900, leading to the establishment of a central bank. After 1930s Great Depression, Gold was no longer considered to be the standard value but revised devaluing its price beginning the era of International Monetary Regulation Act.
Modern digital nuances of cashless payments, bitcoin did keep us in Wonder!