Gold and electrum rings from the Nahal Qanah Cave (Israël) late fifth millennium BC. Money?pic.twitter.com/ch9YbUkW8V
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There isn't a sharp distinction to be made between collectibles and money. Collectibles were a store of value and medium of wealth transfer -- the main distinctions one might make are somewhat arbitrary cutoffs of velocity and granularity.
Since these are electrum & gold they may have been used in higher-value wealth transfers than those of later Mesopotamian and Holy Land silver.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/983714112667508736 …
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Just going from the photo these rings look like ugly jewelry of standard sizes, making possible a higher frequency of use use as a medium of value transfer than the unique / nonfungible collectibles generally featured in museums.
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