Show STONE istone AGE MONEY MONE y ON ISLAND OF YAP coins that are somewhat hard to steal yap you nay may rem remember embe li Is n tiny almost micros microscopic colIC island that Is part of the caroline group lying between guam and the philippines an insignificant spot of 0 had as far as aize size goes it caused quite a poth er after the allies took it from germany after thi the war it li Is valuable as a cable station and as a relaying point for radio and a great many fists were shaken over it un til its status finally vas ai settled this wa was done in 1922 2 by a treaty signed by the united states and japan recognizing the japanese mandate oer the island but securing to the united state states certain cable right nothing much was heard about tap yap again until about five years later when the immigration bureau announced that the inhabitants of the island were snubbing us at the time when immigrants from everywhere on the gobe wen were trying to crash our gates the haughty tap yap landers joined with the snooty folk of muscat nauru lauru and french To goland and would have none of UL the Ya are now back in the news again under somewhat hat picturesque tur esque circumstances the chase national bank of new york maintain in its main office one of the largest collections of moneys of the world the ile bighearted big hearted Ya and their coins t represented and so to overcome this defect the islanders got together and shipped the bank a few coins colus three sped mens of their money which Is called fet the money arrived a day or ao 10 ago practically in the form of bowl den ders it seems the innocent yap landers are also a conservative oat out fit and they still tick stick to the old stone age standards one coin sent Is about years old is 20 inches in diameter and weighs pounds it li Is reported thil this coin has the value of in 18 foot canoe one quarter i of an acre of 0 land or about co conets it la Is eald said for instance that falhen bm a Ya transaction la in bolves 1 too great a lum surn to be moved conveniently the new owner imply simply chisels his mark on his money ani and leaves it in his neighbors neighbor a yard un til ill he can round up enough help to tote it borne home Som sometimes ellmes the doner money Is never moved and there Is 1 a record of one coin at the th same place for or more than a most blost of the yap money la Is ID in the form of disks of quarried stories some resemble millstones in shape fili ape end and they weigh anything lp to ft five tons there Is ls no mint on the island all the money comes in the rough from the ie Is lands and the In then shape it up and glie it a value die dia covering limestone on yap would be just like discovering rold gold anywhere else baltimore evening sun |