Commodity money
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Commodity money is money whose value comes from a commodity of which it is made. Commodity money consists of objects having value or use in themselves as well as their value in buying goods. This is i
Japanese commodity money before the 8th century AD: arrowheads, rice grains and gold powder. This is the earliest form of Japanese currency.
A bronze okpoho or manilla, the traditional commodity money in West Africa until the 1940s.
Axe-like grzywnas (commodity money) from Kostkowice, Poland, 9th to mid-10th century AD
Shell money
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Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted of whole or partial s
Commodity money
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1742 drawing of shells of the money cowry, Monetaria moneta.
Antiquities of the southern Indigenous, particularly of the Georgia tribes (1873)
This 1845 British illustration gives an artist's impression of traders in Africa using cowry shells as money.
Chinese shell money, 16th–8th centuries BC.