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Of course written evidence would be the easy solution. There is some... but it's not conclusive. We have Hammurabi's code and previous sumerian ones. We have the Ea Nasir complaint tablet and similar trade records...

Shipwrecks, buried hoards, tombs and other archaeological finds must be used to complement what written evidence we have... they are of course harder to interpret.

Another very good source is Scripture. The Bible spans a long time period, although translations can sometimes get in the way. The Torah earliest texts are believed to be from the 15th C BC and of course the New Testament originates from the 1st C, when monetary systems were already well established.
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Flix 1y ago

So in between Abraham using commodity money (silver) and Judas being paid in silver coins... somewhere in the middle we could also find the answer to how money became standardised.

Genesis 23:16:

“Abraham weighed out for Ephron the silver according to the weight he had named in the hearing of the Hittites: four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weight of the merchants.”

Matthew 26:14-16

14 Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests 15 and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver.

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