AHC: Magic Money Trees

Zachariah

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Your challenge is to have some nation, civilization or culture adopt something which grows on, or from, trees- leaves, bark, oil, seeds etc- as legal tender, as the basis of its monetary system. What would such a civilization look like?
 
Your challenge is to have some nation, civilization or culture adopt something which grows on, or from, trees- leaves, bark, oil, seeds etc- as legal tender, as the basis of its monetary system. What would such a civilization look like?

I think the common question of parents to kids "do you think money grows on trees" would be answered :p
 
It would have to be a rare tree even for the local area.

I'm not going to accept grass clippings or magnolia leaves as payment for goods or services. I can get as much of those as I want in my front yard.
 
The Dutch based their entire economy on tulips once until someone pointed out, while pretty, they're useless, and their economy collapsed basically overnight.
 
The Dutch based their entire economy on tulips once
No they didn't
until someone pointed out, while pretty, they're useless,
that's not exactly how it ended. It ended the way all bubbles ended.
and their economy collapsed basically overnight.
No, it didn't.

Goldgar's study of archived contracts found that even at its peak the trade in tulips was conducted almost exclusively by merchants and skilled craftsmen who were wealthy, but not members of the nobility.[40] Any economic fallout from the bubble was very limited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
 
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