Currency

Currency (also known as Money) refers to a standardized medium of exchange for trade. Currency evolved along with Civilization starting from simple barter, then moving towards systems of currency based around masses of certain rare metallic elements such as gold and silver. In the modern world, most currencies are based around state issue backed up by legal authority on the matter of transactions.

Currency in Scinece fiction

• In the Star Trek, the United Federation of Planets has abolished currency, although other nations such as the Klingon Empire still issue currencies. A Analog to the Gold Standard is made use of by the Ferengi and honored by others powers based around Latinum.

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