Cabbage, dough, mulla, green, buck. The number of
terms of endearment for currency is staggering. I can recognize money immediately, as can most of you. In currency there needs to be extreme consistency, inconsistencies are what allow us to identify forgeries. The first money was coinage. It could be cast or imprinted with exactness. The level of consistency needed for paper money to function was made possible by the advent of printing. And for that we can thank the Chinese.
