Gold is worth something............why is it valuable?............it is very pretty, yes........but it is also malleable...........u can bend it unlike other metals...........................u trade what is valuable............cocoa beans are big..........and u make chocolate from them......................

CHOCOLATE: Food of the Gods - Cornell University

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When Money Grew on Trees. This facsimile from the Codex Mendoza (c. 1541) shows tribute that the Aztecs extracted twice a year from the cacao-growing region of Soconusco in southern Mexico. Next to the jaguar skins are two loads of cacao beans, which were used as currency as well as the drink of the elite.

When did the Aztecs stop using cacao beans for money? - Mexicolore

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Pic 1: Display of cacao bean 'values' at the Chocolate Museum, Bruges. ... We don't know when cacao beans began to be used as money in ancient Mexico, but ...

Why were cocoa beans so valuable? Asked by ... - Mexicolore

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And as everybody wanted them, products of all kinds began to be exchanged for cocoa beans, till before long they had become a unit of currency (money).