Firstly we have the mountains, well mountains are landmarks they’re land which meant they do not fit into the good characteristic of money because they cannot be move, and the acceptability is rather unacceptable. This already took out 2 of the good characteristics money should have so mountain are concluded as “bad” money.
Second is cheese, looking at the characteristics down the list the acceptability may be well acceptable, and the portability which enable to be move is rather quite easy too if overlooking the fact that if its too hot it’ll melt then yes. The ability to divide into small pieces and values is good too, whether slicing it into small slices or ripping it into small balls. Just one problem with the cheese is that it doesn’t have a good scarcity because cheese are rotten milk which hardens so anybody can make and duplicate it meaning there’s no value in the using cheese as money. This concludes cheese as “bad” money.
Now the cigarettes, some people may or may not know that the cigarettes has already been used as money such as in the prison which are illustrated in some movies. The criteria which makes it a good money is how its very portable, retains its value in every state unless totally ripped, have very good acceptability as well as the scarcity because cigarettes comes with brand and other chemical stuff its hard to duplicate and so this is why it makes a “good” money. Just the downside of it is that it can’t be divide up as an individual of cigarette but the fact that one pack has many cigarettes make up for it.
One last material to consider is gold, the issue here is that gold has already been used as money in the past by the Chinese which is depict in many historical Chinese movies, but they now that’s they stopped using it let’s see why that currency isn’t a good material. The acceptability for gold I’m sure is accept by everyone, it value for modern day which the price are very high just for one small bar of gold. The portability is good too depending on the size which the gold is melted into even the scarcity is good because gold are natural resources they are limited. The divisibility of gold is poor which in which case we need too use only a small amount of gold it cannot be broken up that easily. And another thing to take note of is that the value of gold changes every now and then making it an inaccurate amount of money to use and thus make gold unqualified to be a good money.
