Aztecs Used Cocoa Beans as Currency

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Chocolate was once real money. A rabbit was worth 10 cocoa beans.

In the Aztec Empire, cocoa beans were used as official currency. A rabbit was worth 10 beans, a slave worth 100. Emperor Montezuma's treasury contained millions of cocoa beans. The drink made from these precious beans was reserved only for nobility.

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