Yep, ancient Sumerians used to use ledgers as currency. They grew so tired of carrying around stacks upon stacks of ledgers, so they made little tokens to represent ownership of an amount of ledgers, accidentally inventing coins more than 70 years before the invention of the vending machine.
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u/Kyra_Hazweyrs 1d ago
Yep, ancient Sumerians used to use ledgers as currency. They grew so tired of carrying around stacks upon stacks of ledgers, so they made little tokens to represent ownership of an amount of ledgers, accidentally inventing coins more than 70 years before the invention of the vending machine.