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Show REMARKABLE PIECE OF MONEY. Unwieldy Medium of Exchange on Island of Ysp. Tbe most remarkable money In the world Is usod on the Island ot Yap, In the Caroline group. Tho accompanying accompany-ing picture shows a single coin, perforated per-forated through the nilddlo. Coins of this kind are sometimes as much as twelve feet In diametor and vary In value according to their alio. Tbay are circular slabs of limestone and form a most unwieldy medium of exchange. ex-change. A man wbo had extensive business debts to meet would need a ' A Bit of Small Change. whole floot of canoes, or perhaps, ten yoke of bullocks, and a wagon to transport his specie. Generally speaking, speak-ing, howevor, this stone money Is not moved about to any extent, the great discs or wheels being kept ouulde tbe bouses of tbe rich men. |