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Welsh mining towns had alternative currencies 200 years ago – here's what the crypto world could learn from them

  • Written by Edward Thomas Jones, Senior Lecturer in Economics / Director of the Institute of European Finance, Bangor University
Welsh mining towns had alternative currencies 200 years ago – here's what the crypto world could learn from themA halfpenny token issued by the Parys Mining Company of Anglesey in 1788. The hooded druid design was used for many years and was the first of hundreds of token designs.BrandonBigheart/Wikimedia

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