[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Currency Ideas(was Valutas patch)

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 03:40:35PM +0000, Jason Todd was heard to say:
>  IMHO you shouldn't start using say, valutas when you're civ reaches
> currency. A better point would be Economics. Really, all that civs were
> doing when they got currency is using gold, silver, copper, etc. Sure,
> they were shaped into coins, but they were only worth the amount of
> metal in them. Where as, once countries got economics, paper money
> became possible(with a lot of work) and a true national currency was
> made. Until than, you were just trading around valuble metals.

  So then, until you get currency, should your national wealth be expressed
in terms of bushels of wheat, head of cattle, and so on? :)

  Daniel

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