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Ancient Egypt Had Money… But It Wasn't Money

How did Ancient Egyptians buy and trade things without using coins?

Imagine walking through an ancient Egyptian marketplace, where a chair, a pair of sandals, or a basket of goods could all have a value — even when no coins changed hands.

Ancient Egyptians used a system that may surprise you. One important part of it was the **deben**, a unit of weight used to measure value. But the deben wasn't a coin you could simply pull out of your pocket.

So if it wasn't a coin, how did people decide what something was worth? And how did they actually pay for the things they needed?

Step into the everyday world of Ancient Egypt and discover how people traded goods, measured value, and kept their economy moving thousands of years before modern money.

This is just one of the fascinating stories hidden behind the daily lives of ancient people.

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