flix on Nostr: Of course, if you want to be strict about the "generally accepted medium of exchange" ...

Of course, if you want to be strict about the "generally accepted medium of exchange" definition of money, you might want to refrain from calling them money.

But they were used for payments, they were used for accounting and they were used for saving.

They circulated in parallel with coins and other moneys. For some transactions and some purposes they were preferred to gold.