The American numismatical manual of the currency or money of the aborigines, and colonial, state, and United States coins. With historical and descriptive notices of each coin or series (1859)
Dickeson, Montroville Wilson · Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott & Co. · leaf 73
s or money, and which webelieve to have been used by the aborigines as such, for measuring values and effectingexchanges, we have very slightly trespassed beyond the same, into the field of theantiquarian. We would inform our readers that, at some future time, we may undertake a workupon North… … / XA,jsi-nt/,:„Ljth fbil.ii WAMPUM. 45 WAMPUM. The use of wampum as a currency, or subject of barter and exchange, among theaborigines upon the northern portion of this continent, extends back to a very remoteperiod, the antiquity of which we shall not attempt to determine. It was, probably,the…
Numismatics · Coinage · Money · Indians of North America
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