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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 1597259, member: 9204&quot;]Most shell money is prepared in some labor-intensive way, generally ground down to beads and/or holed and strung. At the very least it&#039;s carried (by humans) from far away. People assume that because it&#039;s made of shells it&#039;s cheap. But if something were so abundant and easy to acquire as that, it would never be used as money.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: I don&#039;t mean to say that cowrie shells are coins. I&#039;m trying to stress the idea that coinage wasn&#039;t invented, so much as evolved over time from other forms of exchange.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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