PAPUA NEW GUINEA
    Half of a very large island, the other half being part of Indonesia.  Human culture is at least 15,000 years old there.  Until very recently it was early neolithic tribal, with more unrelated languages in one place than anywhere else in the world.  A very thin veneer of modern government and culture has been sprayed on that base to facilitate the extraction of resources.
    Many of the numerous cultures facilitated trade with the use of various things not coins or paper money.  These things have been collected under the organizing categories "odd-and-curious," "primitive money," and "traditional money."
A revised version of my World Coin News article on the coinage of this country.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 10 kina K11 1977, copper-nickel, "matte," mintage: 82, BU $135.00
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