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weren't people actually paid in bread and cheese?

• renewiltord 3y ago
  Indeed, some historians say this is why people call money green: mold sometimes grows on the bread and cheese and mold is green. Of course, that's a fringe theory. The most mainstream one is that the copper coins people used for pennies would develop a patina of verdigris and would look, like the Statue of Liberty, green.