Shell money - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shell money is a medium of exchange that was once common. It consisted either of whole sea shells or pieces of them which were worked into beads or otherwise artificially shaped. The use of shells in...
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cowrie shells, primitive money form ... global telecommunications and a virtually unitary planetary economy we have seen the eclipse of the cowrie, as the next century may see the end of token currency entirely. The cowrie now has no "value," and is simply a beautiful creature, as it always his been.
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Cowrie Shells; The Currency of Africa ... Cowrie shells were the most popular currency within Africa. Pictures of cowrie shells adorned cave walls. The Egyptians considered them to be magical agents and also used them as currency in foreign exchange transactions.
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www.mbad.org/cowrie.htm
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on money cowrie (marine snail), ...Pacific oceans. The 10-centimetre (4-inch) golden cowrie (C. aurantium) was traditionally worn by royalty in Pacific Islands, and the money cowrie (C. moneta), a 2.5-centimetre (1-inch) yellow species, has served as currency in Africa and elsewhere.
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Yet they never adopted the cowry currency. Jeffreys assumes too readily that ... no obstacle to a ruler introducing the cowry currency into his domains for ...
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Marion Johnson has been interested in the cowrie currency of West Africa for many years. ... The story of cowrie currency is stranger than fiction. ...
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Key Phrase page for cowrie currency: Books containing the phrase cowrie currency ... Featured Books for "cowrie currency" ... in monetary economics at Oxford, was resident in the Gold Coast during 1937-39, but only began her inquiry into the cowrie currency much later, during a four-year stay from 1962 to 1966 in now-
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Cowrie shells were the most popular currency within Africa. Pictures of cowrie shells adorned cave walls. The Egyptians considered them to be magical agents and also used them as currency in foreign exchange transactions.
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www.blackhistorypages.net/pages/cowrie.php
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