The History of Money
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Cowry Shells - The Money of Africa and Asia
Rightha: Cowry shells worked quite well and were money in africa and asia for a long time. Rightha: Once the europeans started going more to africa, they started bringing in sort of industrial quantities of cowra shells. And there was, as you would expect, this massive inflation that messed up the cowry shell economy so fastnin so smart paper money, presumably, i'm taking a guess, that comes out of china. Tis anothe coess, whether it carshels or bay.
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