A medieval woodcut showing a money changers shop in Britain. In Europe they would sit on benches or bancas at markets etc, giving us the modern terms bank and banker. The scales in the picture were used to verify the amount of precious metal in coinage. Those that operated from premises would make loans and give credit bills.

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