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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Revi, post: 1651216, member: 42843&quot;]I have been reading about Jamestown lately and I discovered that the Indians in Virginia had a copper economy before the Europeans arrived.&nbsp; There was a lot in the Great Lakes region, and it was traded all over North America.&nbsp; There are others who had a copper economy as well.&nbsp; It was not used as money so much as items to bring prestige to chiefs.&nbsp; The Northwest Indians are still using some of it:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://lanecc.edu/library/don/copper.htm#what" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lanecc.edu/library/don/copper.htm#what" rel="nofollow">http://lanecc.edu/library/don/copper.htm#what</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if there is any kind of early &quot;money&quot; anyone has heard of made of copper?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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