Talk:Shell money

A note
"the annual importation was valued at about 30,000" what? – Rupees, or individual shells? &mdash; Sebastian (talk) 02:03, August 2, 2005 (UTC)

slight edit
"Used by technologically primitive groups". I'd have to disagree with that statement. At the very least, I think it should be edited. Sounds kinda POV, but me saying it sounds kinda POV is POV in itself I suppose (lol). Frankly i'm not sure how you would define a "technologically primitive group". If that includes anyone not using gunpowder in the 19th century, then nearly everyone outside of europe would fall into that category. The societies I know of that used shell money (specifically the Kingdom of Kongo, Mali Empire and Asanteman) were not primitive in their day. Technology wise, all of them used the same resources militarily and politically you would find outside of Africa. I think its safe to assume the author wasn't speaking just about Africa and I'm not knowledgible enough about the other parts of the world that used shell-money as a form of exchange. To be on the safeside, I'm gonna edit the first sentence to be a bit less inflammatory. Holla at me here or on my talk page if there's a problem with this.Scott Free 02:42, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Shells were also used in India (e.g. Kāju in Telugu, hardly a "technologically primitive group". Here, it seems, the advantage over copper coin was that the "Cowry" (gavva) cannot be forged (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:670.hobson). In China (A.D. 9-23) one cowry was worth 3 cash (copper coins) (http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.0:1:670.hobson). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.165.242.64 (talk) 19:29, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

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