In antiquity, exchange involved direct selling via merchants or peddlers and bartering systems were commonplace. Both hoarding and bartering certain goods were illegal. The physical market was characterised by transactional exchange and bartering systems were commonplace. The earliest forms of exchange involved bartering systems. They practiced fishing, hunting, bartering, and trading with each other. This creates the need for a bartering, exchange, or cash economy to acquire food. Also known as a subsistence economy, a traditional economy is defined by bartering and trading. For men tattoos had an important functionality in bartering and exchanges. Bartering, not money, was used in trade. This type of exchange is the foundation of a bartering economy. At that time, cash money was scarce in Ohio forcing much bartering. Survival opportunities open to the larger Soviet community included bartering and farming on private land. For their upper class clientele, fixed prices spared them from hassle of bartering. Payment was either in cigarettes or by bartering. LETS also does not effect a return to bartering or the abolition of property.