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nydus/The Origin of Metallic Currency and Weight StandardsPublic
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CHAPTER II. Primitive Systems of Currency.

Fig. 12. Old Calabar copper-wire formerly used as money.
Fig. 12. Old Calabar copper-wire formerly used as money.

In the region of the Upper Congo brass rods are employed as currency for articles of small value. This wire, made at Birmingham, about the

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