Show STONE AGE MONEY MONE y ON ISLAND OF YAP coins that are arc somewhat hard to steal yap you may ren remember la Is n tiny almost micro microscopic island that Is in part of the caroline group lying between guam and the philippines an A n insignificant spot 0 of land as far fak os ns size goes it caused quite a pother fitter after tile the attlies took it from ger ninny many after the war it la Is valuable na as a cable station and as a relaying point for radio and a great ninny elsts were shaken over it until its status finally was settled tills this was dono done in 1022 by a treaty signed by tile united states and japan recognizing the japanese mandate over the island but securing to the united states certain cable rights nothing much was heard about yap again until about five years inter when the immigration bureau announced that the inhabitants of at the were vere snubbing us at tile tho time han bihon immigrants from rom very every where on the globe were trying to crash our gates gales the haughty yap landers joined with alth the snooty folk of muscat nauru lauru and french To goland and would havo have none of us MS the are slow now back in tile the news again under somewhat picturesque tur esque circumstances tho the chase national bank of new york maintains IQ in its main office one of the largest collections of moneys of tho the world tho bighearted big hearted Ya and their coins represented and so to overcome this defect tile the islanders got together and Ell shipped ippei the banat banar a few coins three sped trens trena of their money which Is called as W 1 I ii tho the money arrived a day or so do 6 10 practically in the form of bowl ders it seems the innocent yap landers andersarn sare are also a conservative outfit and they still stick to tho the old stone ago age standards etan darda one coin tent sent Is about years olo old Is 20 indies inches in diameter and pounds it Is reported this coin has the colue of tin RU 18 foot canoe one quarter of 0 an acre of land or about coconuts it Is said for instance that when a Ya transaction involves too great a sum to be moved conveniently tho the now new owner simply chisels hla his mark on ills hla money and leaves it in his neighbors yard until ho he can round up enough help to toto it home sometimes the money la Is never moved and there Is a rec rac ord of one coin remaining at the place for more than a century most of the gnp money Is in the form of disks of quarried lime stones sonic some resemble millstones in shape and they weigh anything up to tive tons thero la 19 no mint on the island all the money comes in the rough from tile lie lalands aind tho the Ya then shape it up and give it a value discovering limestone on yap would be just like discovering gold anywhere elso else altImore Il evening san |