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In many casinos, a person buys chips to use for gambling. Within the walls of the casino, these chips can often be used to buy food and drink or even a hotel room. Do chips in a gambling casino serve all three functions of money?

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As long as you remain within the casino's walls, chips fit the definition of currency; that is, they serve as a means of exchange, an account unit, and a value store. Once you leave the casino, chips don't work very well as money but many kinds of money don't work well in other places.

It's hard, for example, to spend money from Turkey or Brazil on your local supermarket or the movie theatre.

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