The concept of money was to basically allow individuals to communicate the price and value of goods and services as well as provide individuals with a way to store their wealth.
Over the years, shell money (shells or beads) and commodity money (Salt, weapons, grain, manilla) has been used across the world as noticed in the histories of Indigenous tribes of America to the villages of Africa.
About 3000 years after the barter form of trade existed, the first forms of currencies invented in early China and Europe were coins. The emergence of banks switched the currency production from coins to bank notes to enable easy storage and transportation.
