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The first people to accept paper were almost certainly scammed. That's because the thing was totally unregulated in its first hundreds of years of use.



I think first paper money appeared in China, and was government issued.

Wikipedia has a quote ostensibly from Marco Polo where he discusses this peculiarity of people accepting paper as if it was a golden coin.




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