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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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Captain Euro is a fictional comic book superhero character, created in 1999 as a way to promote the European Union, and specifically the launch of the Euro, the single European currency that arrived in 2002. The character has been featured on a website (first at captaineuro.com, later at captaineuro.eu) since 1999. Captain Euro has been featured on comic books and comic strips available on its website and as comic books on Amazon. The website's contents are available only in English.

Captain Euro, the campaign, website and all the additional characters ans storylines were created by Nicolas De Santis of the consulting firm Twelve Stars for the EU. Twelve Stars was already working for the EU in various identity and brand projects, including with the European Parliament. (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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Image 1Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 2Banknotes and coins (from Money)
Image 3Tibetan "gaden" Tangka, undated (ca. AD 1840), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 4A 1914 British gold sovereign (from Money)
Image 5Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script, reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 6Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 7Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 8A check, used as a means of converting funds in a demand deposit to cash (from Money)
Image 9Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, reverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 10President J. K. Paasikivi illustrated in a former Finnish 10 mark banknote from 1980 (from Money)
Image 11“Babyal Hoard” type, of the Kuru Janapada (350 - 315 BCE) (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 12Silver, ½ Karshapana coin, “Babyal Hoard” type, of the Kuru Janapada (450 BC - 315 BC) (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 13Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 14US dollar banknotes (from Money)
Image 15Tibetan silver tangka with Ranjana (Lantsa) script, dated 15-28 (= AD 1894), reverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 16Punch-marked coins discovered from Chandraketugarh. (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 17Huizi currency, issued in 1160 (from Money)
Image 18Tibetan undated silver tangka (2nd half of 18th century) with eight times the syllable "dza" in vartula script, obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 19A person counts a bundle of different Swedish banknotes. (from Money)
Image 20"Bent bar" of the Gandhara Janapda unearthed with Achaemenid and Greek coins, Gandhara, c.350 BC. (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 21Tibetan kong par tangka, dated 13-45 (= AD 1791), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 22Undated Kelzang tangka (1910), obverse (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 23A hoard of mostly Mauryan punch-marked coins (from Punch-marked coins)
Image 24Sino Tibetan silver tangka, dated 58th year of Qian Long era, obverse. Weight 5.57 g. Diameter: 30 mm (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 25Money Base, M1 and M2 in the U.S. from 1981 to 2012 (from Money)
Image 26Gold coins are an example of legal tender that are traded for their intrinsic value, rather than their face value. (from Money)
Image 27Tibetan undated silver tangka, struck in 1953/54, obverse. (from Tibetan tangka)
Image 28Banknotes of different currencies with a face value of 5000 (from Money)
Image 29Paper money from different countries (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 31Tenga of Muhammad Khudayar Khan, struck at the Kokand mint, dated 1862–1863 (from Kokand tenga)
Image 32Song Dynasty Jiaozi, the world's earliest paper money (from Money)
Image 33A 640 BC one-third stater electrum coin from Lydia. According to Herodotus, the Lydians were the first people to introduce the use of gold and silver coins. It is thought by modern scholars that these first stamped coins were minted around 650 to 600 BC. (from Money)
Image 34Printing paper money at a printing press in Perm (from Money)
Image 35Ancient Jewish coin, engraved menorah, from the Hasmoneon kingdom 37-40 BCE (from Money)