10 abril 2015

When Chocolate Was More Valuable Than Gold

In the Mayan civilization, cacao beans were the currency, and counterfeiting cacao beans out of painted clay had become a thriving industry. Goods could be priced in units of cacao: a slave cost 100 beans, the services of a prostitute cost 10 beans, and a turkey cost 20 beans. In some parts of Latin America, the beans were used as a currency as late as the 1800s.


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