. Loyal citizenship. Fig. 21. NNainjxim mikI cowrii shells, \ of s;ilt, (.itllr. jukIweights of iiRtnl hiivo .served as currency. Cowrie shells are slill ii-^ money in parts of Afriea and .\sia There have l)eeii iiiaiiy siuli acreplal)le articlesor forms of money. The >,orth Amerieaii Iiuliansused strings or belts of waiiipuiii jjiirplc and whitepieces of shells, made into hollow, polished Ihe early settlers in this country, heas rr skinsand tobacco, as well as wampum, often serv«d asmoney. We are told that the people of Sparta, inancient Greece, used iron as money

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. Loyal citizenship. Fig. 21. NNainjxim mikI cowrii shells, \ of s;ilt, (.itllr. jukIweights of iiRtnl hiivo .served as currency. Cowrie shells are slill ii-^ money in parts of Afriea and .\sia There have l)eeii iiiaiiy siuli acreplal)le articlesor forms of money. The >,orth Amerieaii Iiuliansused strings or belts of waiiipuiii jjiirplc and whitepieces of shells, made into hollow, polished Ihe early settlers in this country, heas rr skinsand tobacco, as well as wampum, often serv«d asmoney. We are told that the people of Sparta, inancient Greece, used iron as money; and the Ho-mans at first used large weights of copper as cin-rency. Gold and silver, however, were more con-venient to handle than the baser metals, as a smallamount of them had a nmch larger purchasing i)()\\ , in time, they displaced all other metals asstandard money. Finally, gold alone came to bethe standard money everywhere excei)t in China andIndia and a few other places. 46 Loyal Citizenship Our

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