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Jacques Briard, « Les objets paléomonétaires de l'Europe atlantique protohistorique », Revue Numismatique, ID : 10.3406/numi.2001.2316
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Summary. —The first examples of pre-money are the Columbella shells of the Mediterranean. Some Chalcolithic exports included copper spear heads from Palmela and crockery beads from Egypt. There was also « ring money » consisting of copper rings covered in silver and gold. Pieces of bronze were also broken for exchange. Armorican lead socketed axes are the first complete system of paleo-money. In England another form of pre- money were the iron currency bars of the Early Iron Age.