![]() Money is not an organic creature but its value keeps changing with the society and its economic conditions. They exist as entries in ledgers of financial intermediaries and can be used to make payments for goods and services. Instruments such as cheques, demand drafts and banker's drafts are commercial bank money. In contrast, fiat money's value is imposed by the government, which makes refusal of payments made in the notified legal tender, in the form of currency notes and coins, illegal. Representative money is token coins and notes that can be exchanged for a fixed amount of precious metals or other commodities. The use of commodity money is similar to barter, except that the commodity used is widely accepted and can be easily handled. Gold coins, cocoa beans, cattle or anything that has a value of its own and is used as a medium of exchange is commodity money. It can be of different types-commodity money, representative money, fiat money and commercial bank money. Money is the value assigned to a commodity, a piece of paper, a coin or electronic data (think online banking and credit cards). Shops accept currency notes and coins, but they also accept credit cards. With the exception of someone living in a cave on an undiscovered island, everyone uses money.
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