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...to facilitate these exchanges, it is thought that ox-hide shaped ingots of copper, produced in [[Cyprus]] may have functioned as a currency. ...the [[medieval]] period because there was virtually no new gold, silver or copper introduced through mining or conquest. Thus the overall ratios of the three

...that have been used as mediums of exchange include [[gold]], [[silver]], [[copper]], [[rice]], salt, peppercorns, large stones, decorated belts, shells, alco ...which related other values in a [[Metrics|metric]] such as silver, bronze, copper etc. A barley/shekel was originally both a unit of [[currency]] and a unit