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mudskippiemudskippie Posts: 540 ✭✭
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Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.

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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭
    Not just there, China and surrounding areas used them too.

    Here's wikipedia with some pics.

    And an old Heritage sale: Chinese Tea Money, post-1949 communist tea brick money

    Lot's of odd & interesting stuff out there! And to think what lightsiders pay for their everyday pocket change image

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  • SwKSwK Posts: 378
    funny u should upset me, 30 years ago i bought an early Chinese Tea money and a year later I asked the wife were was it, oooooops she said I thought it was Pu-er tea and I have been drinking it image

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭


    << <i>funny u should upset me, 30 years ago i bought an early Chinese Tea money and a year later I asked the wife were was it, oooooops she said I thought it was Pu-er tea and I have been drinking it image

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    image How was it?
  • SwKSwK Posts: 378
    why u upset me more - i pulled my hair out and told the old lady it was expensive tea, cannot remember what she said but i am sure it would go like this u should not have left it out in the lounge, the cleaner just put it in the kitchen cubhard for using

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  • FilthyBrokeFilthyBroke Posts: 3,518 ✭
    I'm crying on the inside... like when the kids grab a handful of silver change and head out to McDonald's.image
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