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Yes. Money is the abstraction or value - it's the abstraction itself, not the currency itself, as the currency could take any form (gold, fiat paper, grapes, pearls, or a 4 ton Rai Stone [1][2])

Edit: Rai Stones often don't move (like coins/paper money do), but rather stay in one location. Per Wikipedia: "The ownership of a large stone, which would be too difficult to move, was established by its history as recorded in oral tradition, rather than by its location. Appending the transfer to the oral history of the stone thus affected the change of ownership"

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2011/02/15/131934618/the-... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones



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