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Cowrie shell currency from South Africa. Read about shell money here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money

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A stored value loyalty card for a pet-store "All About Fish" in Long Beach, which went out of business in 2009. What does one do with defunct stored value? These and other questions were explored in the Gold to Gigabytes Exhibition held at the UC…

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Printed foam "bill"

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Chinese Hell Money

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Printed brochure from an Islamic Bank in Makasaar, Indonesia

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Photocopied magazine article
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