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> 3750 years ago some dude was still showing up and trying to rip people off and pull the "cash in hand" choosing beggar play.

It wasn't so much a scam, but a dispute over quality control of all things. Other tablets were found along with that one that included a customer complaining that he was tired of receiving low quality ingots. They knew enough about metallurgy six thousand years ago to have legal disputes over impurities!



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