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Was Physical Cash Abolished in any Society?

Is there any country in modern history that has not used physical money?

Cambodia, also known as Kampuchea, did not use any form of physical currency other than barter during the 1975 to 1978 rule of the Khmer Rouge regime. The brutal regime abolished all forms of money

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