---------+-----------------+--------------------------+--------------- 1849 |California |Gold dust by weight, also | | | minute gold coins for | | | small change, coined in | | | private mints. | 1855 |Australia |Gold dust by weight | 185- |Communist |Paper bills, each |Private | settlement in | representing "one | information. | Ohio, called | hour's labor." | | "Utopia." | | 1862 |United States |Paper bills a legal tender|Act of Feb. 25. 1863 |North Carolina |Tenpenny nails, at 5 cents|Anonymous. | | each, for small change. | 1863 |Camp at Florence,|Potatoes for small change |Yorkville | S. C. | | Enquirer. 1863 |United States |Postage-stamps for small | | | change, temporary. | 1865 |Philadelphia, Pa.|Turnips for small change, |Philadelphia | | temporary and local. | Ledger, April. 1865 |United States |Nickel coins for small |Act of March 3. | | change, overvalued. | ---------+-----------------+--------------------------+--------------- An analysis of this table will show how carefully even the most primitive communities guarded against a too restricted money volume. The materials chosen to serve the purpose of money in each country during the early history of society were, it will be observed, such as at the time and place would be of sufficient quantity or volume to insure against any sudden deprivation of supply. In countries where the chase was common, the skins of wild animals were used as money; in maritime communities, shells; in pastoral countries, cattle; in the early history of agriculture, grain; in early mining periods, base metal; in primitive manufacturing ages, nails, glass, musket-balls, strips of cotton, etc.