Q: What is considered the world’s first currency? — Dennis Macmath | Waterford, Michigan It’s a bit tricky, says Ellen Feingold, curator of the National Numismatic Collection at the National ...

Currency shapes everything from daily transactions to global trade, yet most people rarely think about why we have different currencies in the first place. The idea of a world currency surfaces ...

International currency arrangements have come under scrutiny in the aftermath of the global financial crisis The dollar has been the preeminent global reserve currency for most of the past century.