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They could have little tokens that represent the stones, and pass those around as symbols of ownership. And then the druids in charge of the stones might think, how many people ever check up on their stones anyway? We can create new tokens whenever we want to buy stuff! And when that goes too far and there are runs on the megalith banks, they might have to go off the megalith standard and just pass the tokens around.
How do you stop counterfighting of the stones?
Um...religious taboo.
I'm not being serious here, just nailing the original crazy idea to the wall and seeing what confabulations accrete round it.
This is why I posted in the crazy ideas thread!
I don't know how they could have made the bigger stones represented by tokens. Nevertheless, the stones didn't have to be divisible or transferable to be used as store of value and trade.
The places where there happen to be thousands of stones aligned in the same place, like Carnac, could have been big annual markets where they traded goods, lands, political agreements, slaves, wives, etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac_stones