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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Alegandron, post: 5482695, member: 51347&quot;]I want some MesoAmerican Bronze Ax Money... Read about this when reading about the history of Mayan Rulers...</p><p><br /></p><p>Then, I went to Wiki, just to see what they looked like.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;<b>Axe-monies</b> refer to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze" rel="nofollow">bronze</a> artifacts found in both western <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica" rel="nofollow">Mesoamerica</a> and the northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_civilizations" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_civilizations" rel="nofollow">Andes</a>.&quot;&nbsp; &quot;it is argued that the system of money first arose on the north coast of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peru" rel="nofollow">Peru</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecuador" rel="nofollow">Ecuador</a> in the early second millennium CE. In both regions, bronze was smelted, likely by family units, and hammered into thin, axe-shaped forms and bundled in multiples of five, usually twenty. &quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1239158[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1239159[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe-monies#:~:text=Axe-money%20from%20Mexico%20at%20the%20Prehistory%20Museum%20of,in%20both%20western%20Mesoamerica%20and%20the%20northern%20Andes" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe-monies#:~:text=Axe-money%20from%20Mexico%20at%20the%20Prehistory%20Museum%20of,in%20both%20western%20Mesoamerica%20and%20the%20northern%20Andes" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axe-monies#:~:text=Axe-money from Mexico at the Prehistory Museum of,in both western Mesoamerica and the northern Andes</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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