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Honestly I will never understand where money comes from
It goes all the way back to the very early Bronze Ages, if not the Neolithic (new Stone Age) period which began with the end of the last major ice age about 10,000 years ago when global temperatures began warming up and glacial features began retreating allowing Cro-Magnums (early form of Homo Sapiens Sapiens) to begin gradually moving away from constant, nomadic hunter-gatherer societies to small-scale agricultural agrarian communities, then to "proto-cities", then small and large city-states with different cultures and civilizations and respective languages and isogesis/exogesis or etymologies (origin myths). Personally, before their were actual, tended currency that began in the Bronze Age, their were sort of crude barter-economies, or " barter systems" that likely existed for thousands of years between Neanderthals and Cro-Magnums hunter-gatherer tribes during the Ice Ages. SystemShock would know a lot more about this then I would as an archeologist or anthropologist or has studied it more extensively then I have but before their was actual money, Guido, there was a unofficial, sort of official bartering system.
That was indeed "money" before money if that fits your description. While "proto-cities" may have had their origins in the late Neolithic period, organized populated cities as we know them, Guido, began in the Bronze Age. Like Damascus is truly one of the world's oldest cities, even in Biblical times, most people in surrounding regions or in other kingdoms knew it was several thousand years old. I've heard Jerusalem, while not nearly as old as Damascus, might be around 4,500-5,000 years old according to some archeologists, genealogists, or classicists I've read.