cowry

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A marine shell of the genus Cypraea.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Playing pieces are seeds, beans, stones, cowry shells, half-marbles or other small undifferentiated counters that are placed in and transferred about the holes during play. Source: Internet

The Bengal-Maldives cowry shell trade was the largest shell currency trade network in history. Source: Internet

To further incentivize the soldiers, each soldier received bonuses paid in cowry shells for each enemy they killed or captured in battle. Source: Internet

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