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yes. Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia!Tea bricks were in fact the preferred form of currency over metallic coins for the nomads. The tea could not only be used as money and eaten as food in times of hunger but also prepared as supposedly beneficial medicine for treating coughs and colds.

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