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Subject:	Venezuelan "cowries on board"
From:	David Kirsh <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:05:20 -0500
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Dear Kay, Mike, Art and all,

I think this was Randy's point. The cowries wouldn't be very useful
except as currency and to avoid taxes.

But the NUMBERS of cowries? Are there really beaches lined with
windrows of cowries? Or -- should I ask -- WERE there such beaches?
Sigh.

David Kirsh

On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:18 PM, Kay Peterson wrote:

Could it be that cowrie ballast had a monetary value that simple rocks
wouldn't have had?

Kay

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