History of money

Money is a special good, medium of exchange, payment, measure of value for different goods

History of money
Long time ago people used to pay for everything by things that have any value. It was not very useful, because people could not divide such money into several parts and it was loosing its value.
Later people began to exchange goods to different metals. Before 4500 years ago Mesopotamians paid for everything by silver.

Ancient Egyptians used rings made of silver, gold and copper.
There was no concrete shape of money, but later jewelers began to make coins which had different shapes and coins.
Coins got pictures, symbols and portraits of monarchs.
Later money from metal coins were converted to paper money (banknotes).
First paper money came from China (9ct).

In Europe paper money were created only in 17th-18th century.
Each bank had its own banknotes this why right to print money was given only to 1 bank – National (State).

Euro
Euro is an international value which was established in 2002 in counties-members of European union.
Printing of euro is the job of European central bank that is situated in Germany.