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The Seashell Exchange

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The Seashell Exchange is where you begin a new hobby in seashell collecting, grow a seashell collection, or profit from buying, selling, or trading in seashells.

The Seashell Exchange aim is to deliver to you the following value:

  1. learn about seashells
  2. buy your favorite seashells. Click Here 
  3. sell a seashell on our site
  4. trade seashells with other collectors
  5. grow your knowledge and collection of rare and beautiful seashells

Seashells are an ancient commodity. Today they are a more pseudo-commodity, but they still work like money. They breath like money, rise and fall only to rise again just like money. Instead of country bankers stating the value of seashell money, the market or collective of respecters (of seashell value) determines the trading value of seashells.

 

Seashells as MONEY.

Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to money that was once commonly used in many parts of the world. Shell money usually consisted either of whole sea shells or pieces of them, which were often worked into beads or were otherwise artificially shaped. Using shells in trade began as direct commodity exchange, the shells having value as body ornamentation. The distinction between beads as commodities and beads as money has been the subject of debate among economic anthropologists

Active 1: Researchers have found a shell money on almost every continent: America, Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Read more and continue the quote above on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money