FLRW... I think this would be a great plan.
Aka ...' advanced progress '.... moving on up..... to infinity and beyond......
ZedV... ' expediency '....
Cheapest { poor quality } then throw it away in dump culture of expediency. Good call Zed.
...""Upuntil 1500 BC, all money was cattle, lambs, goats or pigs – live moneythat was real life-support wealth, wealth you could actually eat. Steers were by far the biggest food animal and so they were the highestdenomination of money. The Phoenicians carried their cattle withthem for trading but these big creatures proved to very cumbersome on longvoyages. This was the time when Crete was the headquarters of thebig-boat people and their new supreme weapon – the lines-of-supply-controlship. Crete was called the Minoan civilization, the bull civilization,worshippers of the male fertility god."...
...." For numismatists, “Celtic” means a vast category of ancient coinage ranging across much of Europe from the fourth to the first century BCE. Between 58 and 50 BCE, Julius Caesar’s Roman legions conquered the Celtic peoples of Gaul in a brutal war. The spoils of that war financed Caesar’s eventual rise to dictatorship. One result is that the French today speak a language derived from Latin rather than Celtic.
Celtic tribes consisted of a warrior elite, with a priestly class (Druids), an artisan class (the metal-smiths, who made weapons and feasting vessels that were highly valued), and a mass of slaves. The Greek writer Poseidonius of Apameia (c. 135 – 51 BCE) observed that:
…Italian merchants look on the Gallic love of wine as their own godsend… they receive in return for it an incredibly large price: for one amphora of wine they receive in return a slave (Nash, 82).
....Like Romans, Gaulish peoples adopted coinage from the Greeks with whom they traded. Dozens of different tribes issued coins in gold, silver, bronze, and potin[1] (an alloy of copper, tin, and lead). Dating the coins and attributing them to specific tribes is often uncertain. There are hundreds of different types issued over a period of three centuries and a brief survey like this can only illustrate a few examples. Often based on Greek or Roman designs, these coins expressed a creative artistic sensibility and are avidly collected today."...