Editing Money (section)

===Money in (relatively) Modern Settings===
While barter is typically associated with extremely primitive societies, it has seen use far beyond what people realize. In the Thirteen Colonies, hard currency was in short supply due to limited minting and a tendency to leave across the Atlantic and not come back. Heavy regulation on producing currency (one of the many, many causes of the Revolution) forced the colonists used barter, trade goods, "I owe you"s, and foreign coins of subjective exchange rates for trade and wages, a system that was reinforced by barter with Indians. Barter in the colonies was so developed that Matthew Patten's diary (a major primary source for the period) was largely spent keeping track of what he owes people and what people owed him.