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Money SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Measuring p.159
▸ ▸ Metals p.162
We exchange money for things we want to buy, such ▸ ▸ Numbers p.185
as food, clothes, and electricity. Money has a number ▸ ▸ Plastic p.195
value, and it is made up of coins and bills. Some objects ▸ ▸ Precious metals

are expensive and worth more money than others. p.199
▸ ▸ Work p.274

Currency Early currency A type of Digital money
shell that
The different units Before coins were was once Banks store money for people
invented, people
of money used around exchanged other widely traded. in bank accounts. People can
the world are known as things as money, pay into or take money out of
currency. In the US, including cattle, their bank account. They can
salt, grain, and
for example, the currency even shells. use a card or phone to
is the dollar, and in Japan spend the money from
the currency is the yen. the bank in a shop.

Value
Cowry shell An object that takes a lot of time to make or uses
Ancient coins expensive materials is said to have a high value. It
The first coins were used will cost more money than something that is quick
nearly 3,000 years ago.
They were made from gold and easy to make and uses cheaper materials.
and silver. Different coins
were made across the Chinese Han Dynasty coin
ancient world. Ancient Greek coin

Roman Emperor
Antonius Pius.

Ancient Roman coin Ancient Egyptian coin High-value sports car Low-value toy car

Modern money
Coins today are made Earning money
from a mix of metals People exchange their time for
called alloys. We also money, too. This vet gets paid
use bills made European euros for the time she spends making
from cotton- British pence animals better. She goes to work
paper or plastic. American cent Danish krone and earns money.
Indian rupee Japanese yen Vet at

work

South African rand
A springbok—the
national animal of
Mexican peso South Africa.

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