Strange Currency
Parent Issue
Day
21
Month
August
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text
In Dahomey, according to a French official report recently issued, the currency is cowrie shells, of which a sack of 20,000 is considered the equivalent of $1.50. Seven hundred cowries are worth about 5 cents.
Article
Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Argus-Democrat