# Urukagina principle

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## Definition

"Pay in best money!"; decree of the Sumerian (Sumer = an ancient country of southern Mesopotamia in present-day southern Iraq; the Sumerians are believed to have invented the cuneiform: the wedgeshaped system of writing) Urukagina around 2500 BC. The Urukagina, around 2500 B.C., instructed the (foreign trade) merchants to pay in Kurant coin - practically gold pieces - when purchasing and to be paid when exporting, in order to - obtain the best goods or - deliver the best goods in the eyes of the buyers. - See Amalfiner, Florentine, gold coin, kurant money, samarkander, commodity money, zechine. Attention: The financial encyclopedia is protected by copyright and may only be used for private purposes without express consent! University Professor Dr. Gerhard Merk, Dipl.rer.pol., Dipl.rer.oec. Professor Dr. Eckehard Krah, Dipl.rer.pol. E-mail address: info@ekrah.com https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Ernst_Merk https://www.jung-stilling-gesellschaft.de/merk/ https://www.gerhardmerk.de/

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