Shell: 100000+ yrs Gold wearable: 3800 Gold & silver coin: 2400 Paper IOUs for gold & silver: 250 Pure fiat: 47 Cryptocurrency: avail. now
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
I saw this last month in Bangladesh. Shells used as currency circa 500 years ago.
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Replying to @lyotier
Indeed, cowrie shells and silver wires ("larins" or "fishhook money") were both common forms of non-coin, non-fiat, and non-debt money widely used in the Indian Ocean trade and beyond.
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