
With millions of consumers plunge and swipe their plastic into card readers on a daily basis, we barely take a moment to consider the path that we’ve taken from barter, to coin, to currency and to plastic. While it may seem to have occurred over a relatively short period of time, it has actually been in the making for centuries.






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