Mises Wire
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Juan de Mariana
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[ A Selection From: “On the Coinage” by Juan de Mariana Translated by Hazzard Bagg for the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 21, no. 2 (Summer 2018) . ] In ancient times they used to exchange things without using money: a goat for a sheep, a cow for some grain. Then they figured out that it would be easier if merchandise and grain were