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Peter explores the idea of a global currency. He takes journalist and broadcaster Robert Peston to 600BC to visit the forge of King Alyattes to see the minting of the world's first coin. Next they forward to the 2060 launch of the first universal currency. Series in which Peter Snow and guests board a time-travelling DeLorean to go back and forward in time. Producer: David Stenhouse First broadcast on BBC Radio in October 2015.
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