Commodity

The Aztecs used cocoa beans as currency. A rabbit cost 10 cocoa beans and a slave cost 100. Cocoa be...

Shell beads used as currency and record keeping by Native American tribes of the Northeast. White be...

Cowrie shells were used as currency across Africa, Asia, and Oceania for thousands of years. The mon...

Salt was used as currency across many cultures. Roman soldiers received a salt ration called salariu...

The massive stone discs of Yap island in Micronesia, used as a store of wealth. The largest rai ston...