Origins Of Money

[geof_junk]

An article on the origin of money .....

 

.....LINK.....

 

Has anyone found any of these.

[The Georgiadigger]

Found a few blades over the years, always makes my heart skip a beat.

Sort of off subject but, I've read that this style Diplomatic button. Was inspiration for the first American gold coin. All finds found on private property with permission.

[Dubious]

On 1/21/2021 at 9:45 PM, geof_junk said:

An article on the origin of money .....

 

.....LINK.....

 

Has anyone found any of these.

When I was a kid, I was fascinated by mentions of Wampum in some of the books I read--the shell-based currency used by many pre-Columbian Indian tribes in eastern North America (and not just those along the coast).  It seemed to me that if one was fortunate enough to live in the period and by the sea, there would always be a ready supply of money.  Well, it wasn't quite that easy--apparently there was a lot of work involved in finding the right kind of shells and then crafting them into strings of wampum.  Interestingly, for a while, the early European settlers also used wampum as a medium of exchange, especially in the fur trade.

https://www.wampumbear.com/P_America First Currency.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wampum