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Commodity money

Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. Commodity money consists of objects having value or use in themselves (intrinsic value) as well as their value in buying goods. This is in contrast to representative money, which has no intrinsic value but represents something of value such as gold or silver, for which it…

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Commodity money

Nodes77
Edges76
Triples36
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.025974
Components1

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Commodity money

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related to External links · 10
Commodity money → American, Commodities Archived, Commodity Exchanges, Definitions, Different Types, Examples, Introduction Archived, Linguistic, Money, Wayback Machine
related to Functions · 9
Commodity money → Although, BC, Eswatini, Gold, Mesopotamia, Relations, The, To, Trading
related to Metals · 5
Commodity money → In, In India, The, US, Usually
related to Aspects · 4
Commodity money → Commodity, Gresham's, Radford, Since

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money commodity value gold used coin fiat commodities goods government metals metal barter silver currency coins legal beaver archived payment

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
gold or silverinstance ofwhich has no intrinsic value but represents something of value0.80text
for which it can be exchangedinstance ofwhich has no intrinsic value but represents something of value0.80text
and fiat moneyinstance ofwhich has no intrinsic value but represents something of value0.80text
which derives its value from having been established as money by government regulationinstance ofwhich has no intrinsic value but represents something of value0.80text
metal knivesinstance ofThey wanted goods0.80text
axesinstance ofThey wanted goods0.80text
barley have been used historically in relations of tradeinstance ofFunctionsAlthough grains0.80text
barterinstance ofFunctionsAlthough grains0.80text
Commodity moneyrelated to AspectsCommodity0.60section
Commodity moneyrelated to AspectsSince0.60section
Commodity moneyrelated to AspectsRadford0.60section
Commodity moneyrelated to AspectsGresham's0.60section

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