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Show Brick Tea UcccJ as Money, llrlck toa oven sonos an money. It 1? still In circulation as a medium of exchange In tho far-Inland Chlncso towns and central Asian nfarts and bazars. Hotwccn tho Mongolian town of Urgas nd tho Siberian town of Klaktn thcro Is usually as much as 500,000 taols ($350,000) of this money In circulation. At tho latter placo It ceases to bo used as currency and enters en-ters Into tho regular brick-ton trado of Slborla and Russia. As brick tea It Is largely used In tho Ilusslan army, by Btirvoylng engineers, tourists and huntors. |