The cowrie is the most widely and longest used currency in history. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
A row of pure white cowrie shells banded his brow. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 22] Reference
The victimized clan demanded compensation in cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [The Austrian Economists:] Reference
They could start all over again with cowrie shells and coconuts. From Wordnik.com. [A Look Into the Financial Crystal Ball] Reference
A garter of white cowrie shells encircled one leg just below the knee. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER IX] Reference
Other coin shapes appear in bronze including knives and cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [State Department Adds New Import Restrictions : Coin Collecting News] Reference
It was a yellow-and-red beaded African-looking necklace with a cowrie shell charm. From Wordnik.com. [THE EXORSISTAH] Reference
Another shell found in concretion, a large cowrie, may also prove to be Polynesian. From Wordnik.com. [Reclaiming the Bounty] Reference
“Sadaf,” the Kauri, or cowrie, brought from the Maldive and Lakdive Archipelago. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Some rice, cowrie-shells, a winnowing-fan and other articles are placed on the grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
There was no need to worry about food — no need to spend a cowrie at the crowded stalls. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Bets are accepted in all denominations from Victory Bonds to the cowrie-shells of West Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
A living, white cowrie shell with its glittering mantle near Solitary Islands, NSW, Australia. From Wordnik.com. [The Good, the Bad, and the Useful] Reference
Congo's has a catanga cross a large copper cross, while Equatorial Guinea has a pair of cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [Living People On Legal Tender] Reference
Did she mean to test my fidelity now, or did she—as I suspected—care not a fig, cowrie, or peach for fidelity?. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
The boy then presses a cowrie on the ground with his little finger, and the girl has to take it away, which she easily does. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
Bengalese blue cloth, a few cowrie shells round her neck, and a shell comb fastening up the braids of profusion of raven hair. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
We were fortunate in finding in the naval yard, a spar of the New Zealand cowrie pine (dammara) large enough for our bowsprit. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Zhou Media of Exchange and Tool-shaped Coins: Early media of exchange include bronze spades, bronze knives, and cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [State Department Adds New Import Restrictions : Coin Collecting News] Reference
Each noble represented a certain price for the townsmen, as Bambara Negroes, we are told, attach a money value to cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [Two Poets] Reference
Adding cowrie to cowrie he brings together lakhs and crores. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)] Reference
It was covered with red velvet and decorated with cowrie shells. From Wordnik.com. [The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.] Reference
From 1200-800 BC the Chinese began using cowrie shells as currency. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
Know, that there is no dealing here except by cowries, and the cowrie is. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference
There was no need to worry about food -- no need to spend a cowrie at the crowded stalls. From Wordnik.com. [Kim] Reference
Let us for ever shut out the idea of laying up a cowrie (mite) for ourselves or our children. From Wordnik.com. [Life of William Carey] Reference
Around 1000 BC the Chinese started making mock cowrie shells with metal, like coins with a hole in the middle. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
Where cowrie shells were once used as payment, nowadays the need for real, hard cash might be becoming obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Matador Network] Reference
As he remarks: "The great advantage of the use of the cowrie is that forgery is excluded, as it cannot possibly be imitated.". From Wordnik.com. [Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley] Reference
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