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Middle age offices king

in history •  7 years ago 

Why were coins used in those days as buttons? I would guess that sewing them to clothing was a good way to store them or hide them. Is this true? Did the holes decrease the value?

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We are living in a civilisation of waste, but during the middle age the recycling and reparing was common, it was easier to make holes than buying new buttons.