The most basic currency - the cowrie shell
Collection
Cowrie Shells
Trade
Credit: WA Museum
Both were widely used as money in the northern Indian Ocean region.
Cowrie shells were the small change of trade for thousands of years over much of Asia and Africa.
Roman coins found their way to India and Sri Lanka. Kings in these countries even minted copies of them
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