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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cherd, post: 8123915, member: 24754&quot;]I was doing one of my random crawls around the internet this morning looking for interesting tidbits about ancient coins. I came across a reference to this &quot;Axe Money&quot; type of currency that was used by Central and South American cultures prior to the arrival of Europeans.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1414602[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>This kind of took me by surprise as I had been under the impression that, aside from gold and silver for ornamental purposes, Native American technology had not advanced beyond the stone age. Apparently, they had independently developed the ability to produce bronze, although the copper tended to be alloyed with arsenic instead of tin <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie68" alt=":nurse:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. Very interesting, learn something new every day!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I wanted to add these to my very long list of &quot;Things that I&#039;d like to get someday&quot;. But, my searches have not produced much information with respect to the availability or sale prices for such things. I did come across this Cointalk thread from 9 years ago where they mention that they have been available from time to time, but nothing with respect to how to track one down or how much one should expect to pay.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aztec-axe-money.212149/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aztec-axe-money.212149/">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/aztec-axe-money.212149/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have paid access to any special archival databases for sales data or anything, but it still seems strange that I can&#039;t find any sales information at all (I did find a few Ebay/Proxibid type lots, but I&#039;m assuming those aren&#039;t representative and might even be fake). Would these types of things even be listed in coin auctions? If so, under what headings? (Ancients, World Coins, etc) Is there a better search term to use than &quot;Axe Money&quot;?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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