DID BRITAIN EVER ABANDON THE USE OF MONEY?

But John Lancester's entry was the only one to non-ironically engage with the aesthetics of currency, as well as its innovative utility. "Money is, by general consent, one of humanity's most remarkable inventions," he writes. "Because it makes all goods interchangeable... it makes all human goods soluble and fungible and interchangeable. That's what is wonderful about money, and what is terrible too- Britain is the only country in the world that had money for a long period, under the Romans--and then stopped using it, for many centuries. It's as if we said, 'Money? Well, it's alright, but it's not really worth the faff, is it?' When we did go back to using it, it was in the form of the Anglo-Saxon coins which are still, to me, the most physically appealing money this country has ever had." After all, if you're encountering money every single day of your life, it might as well be appealing.

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Wayne Homren, Editor

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