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# Unstamped Bars
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## Definition
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Raw metal in bar form without official certification of weight or fineness, requiring individual weighing and assaying for each transaction, creating significant inconvenience and opportunities for fraud in commercial exchange.
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## Source Chapter
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Book I, Chapter 4
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## Context
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Smith describes how early commerce used unstamped metal bars before the invention of coinage, noting the two major inconveniences: the trouble of weighing and the difficulty of assaying, which made transactions cumbersome and vulnerable to deception.
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## Economic Domain
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Exchange
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