Long before the international bankers captured the money creation powers in virtually every country on earth, nations traded in gold and silver coins. Those people who had more gold and silver than they needed for daily purchases would pay a monthly fee to a local businessman to bank the surplus in his vault. With that, they had the option to receive a discount on the storage fee if they allowed the banker to lend that property to other customers. If the banker became greedy and frequently loaned more money than the contract allowed, customers would take their precious metals to a competing storage facility. This was one of the ways that the independent banks were kept honest. Yet it all changed when central banks paid for legislation which outlawed banking independence and gave them total control of the nations’ money systems.