Rekha Jain
Money is unmistakably a landmark invention--considering its indispensable role in economics and, more specially, in the commercial sphere of man's existence anywhere in the world. However, we have yet to have final answers to some of the fundamental questions: when, where, and how was money--shaped as 'coins' or as 'pieces of stamped metal'--first introduced to human civilization? Its genesis in India is traced back to the sixth century BC: during the second ...