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Key facts

1. 1
   Notes and coins now account for only 3% of total money supply, down from 50% in 1948.
2. 2
   The BerkShare, the hard complementary currency of the Berkshire region of Massachusetts, USA, has a circulation of 2.2 million notes.
3. 3
   In 2007, the commercial barter industry enabled trades worth more than US$10 billion and 400,000 businesses firms use the system.
4. 4
   The UK has four hard complementary currencies in circulation, in Totnes, Lewes, Stroud and Brixton.

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