"Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g...." - Quote by Karl Marx
Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison.
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