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- Shell_money abstract "Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to money that was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted either of whole sea shells or pieces of them, which were often worked into beads or were otherwise artificially shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having value as body ornamentation. The distinction between beads as commodities and beads as money has been the subject of debate among economic anthropologists.Some form of shell money appears to have been found on almost every continent: America, Asia, Africa and Australia. 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. Cowry shell money was important at one time or another in the trade networks of Africa, South Asia, and East Asia.".
- Shell_money thumbnail Cypraea-moneta-001.jpg?width=300.
- Shell_money wikiPageExternalLink proceedingsofdav02dave.
- Shell_money wikiPageExternalLink 2up.
- Shell_money wikiPageID "2145251".
- Shell_money wikiPageRevisionID "603517887".
- Shell_money hasPhotoCollection Shell_money.
- Shell_money subject Category:Alternative_currencies.
- Shell_money subject Category:Bivalves.
- Shell_money subject Category:Cultural_anthropology.
- Shell_money subject Category:Gastropods.
- Shell_money subject Category:History_of_money.
- Shell_money subject Category:Money.
- Shell_money subject Category:Scaphopods.
- Shell_money type Animal100015388.
- Shell_money type Bivalve101955933.
- Shell_money type Bivalves.
- Shell_money type Gastropod101942177.
- Shell_money type Gastropods.
- Shell_money type Invertebrate101905661.
- Shell_money type LivingThing100004258.
- Shell_money type Mollusk101940736.
- Shell_money type Object100002684.
- Shell_money type Organism100004475.
- Shell_money type PhysicalEntity100001930.
- Shell_money type Scaphopod101941223.
- Shell_money type Scaphopods.
- Shell_money type Whole100003553.
- Shell_money comment "Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to money that was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted either of whole sea shells or pieces of them, which were often worked into beads or were otherwise artificially shaped. The use of shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having value as body ornamentation.".
- Shell_money label "Muschelgeld".
- Shell_money label "Schelpengeld".
- Shell_money label "Shell money".
- Shell_money label "貝貨".
- Shell_money label "贝币".
- Shell_money sameAs Muschelgeld.
- Shell_money sameAs 貝貨.
- Shell_money sameAs Schelpengeld.
- Shell_money sameAs m.06q2sg.
- Shell_money sameAs Q2060600.
- Shell_money sameAs Q2060600.
- Shell_money sameAs Shell_money.
- Shell_money wasDerivedFrom Shell_money?oldid=603517887.
- Shell_money depiction Cypraea-moneta-001.jpg.
- Shell_money isPrimaryTopicOf Shell_money.
