Tally Sticks is catalogued under Series 1, a set in Cardsmiths Currency, a premium collector line tracing the history of money from ancient coinage to cryptocurrency. Across the set's parallels it appears in 11 variants, the rarest of which is Onyx, limited to 1. It was illustrated by Karl Jones. It is card 40 of 76 in the set.
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In the past, people would record information, units of measure, or financial transactions on a physical object like a piece of wood or even animal bones by marking "tally" notches into the object. Often, the tally stick would be broken or marked with unique notches to where only the original parts would fit back together, thus validating the transaction.
