A "currency" is like "art": it is anything that we use as "currency." At times, cigarettes and small candies have served as currency. Tobacco was a currency in colonial Virginia. In Ancient Greece, iron pots and tripods once served as a sort of currency. Ancient Chinese used gardening tools as currency.
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