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<p>[QUOTE="SensibleSal66, post: 5480667, member: 115232"]Hey guys . I remembered an article I read somewhere about Shells being one of the first coins used . Here I did a quick search . </p><p> The shell most widely used worldwide as currency was the shell of Cypraea moneta, the money cowry. This species is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique.</p><p> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money#:~:text=The%20shell%20most%20widely%20used%20worldwide%20as%20currency,the%20African%20coast%20from%20Ras%20Hafun%20to%20Mozambique." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money#:~:text=The%20shell%20most%20widely%20used%20worldwide%20as%20currency,the%20African%20coast%20from%20Ras%20Hafun%20to%20Mozambique." rel="nofollow">Shell money - Wikipedia</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SensibleSal66, post: 5480667, member: 115232"]Hey guys . I remembered an article I read somewhere about Shells being one of the first coins used . Here I did a quick search . The shell most widely used worldwide as currency was the shell of Cypraea moneta, the money cowry. This species is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money#:~:text=The%20shell%20most%20widely%20used%20worldwide%20as%20currency,the%20African%20coast%20from%20Ras%20Hafun%20to%20Mozambique.']Shell money - Wikipedia[/URL][/QUOTE]
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