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Coin and Currency Collections: Wampum

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The University of Notre Dame in Indiana has a special collections section on coins and currencies, this web page is part of the website representing these artifacts and the history related to them. Wampum, the currency of fur trading, is explained with references to the sources used.

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coins and currencies, monetary value, shell neads, algonquian, brokers, fur trade currency, iroquois, mohawk, mohicans, quahog, university of notre dame, voyageurs, whelk, mussel

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Coin and Currency Collections: Wampum

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