Sentence examples for earliest currency from inspiring English sources

The earliest currency of China of the 8th century bc consisted of miniature hoes and billhooks (pruning implements), with inscriptions indicating the authority.

Gold — pride of kings, undoer of men and one of the world's earliest currencies — has gone through an immense price run-up in recent months.

The source of their confidence is an empirical finding from research into earlier currency unions.

Idealism and a considerable amount of symbolism characterize the images adorning the nation's early currency.

Early currency trading in Asian markets, showed the dollar sliding against the yen and other leading currencies on Monday morning in reaction to the weekend's continued impasse.

Today's complex derivatives are direct descendants of those early currency trades.Perhaps it was no coincidence that Chicago was also the centre of free-market economics.

The earlier currency flexibility was far from ideal, of course: German firms and those based in the countries with currencies linked to the Deutschmark protested every time the lira or peseta lost value.

In order not to produce intolerable stresses in the dies, since the thinner the material the more force necessary to make it flow into the recesses of the die's design, the depth of relief on such coins was of necessity much shallower than with earlier currency.

The digital currency has evolved in fits and starts, like any early currency and exchange, with the founder of Sweden's Pirate Party throwing his entire life savings into Bitcoins, while one user had nearly $500K worth of Bitcoinage stolen, and last month we covered the collapse of Mt. Gox, the network's most popular exchange.

Early currency trading suggested a move away from the dollar, with the biggest drop in the greenback coming against the Swiss franc.

The early virtual currency model didn't work because it took too much effort for developers to integrate it.