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Island Nation Favors 4-Legged Currency

Vanuatu government encourages trade in shells, tusks, pigs

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Dec 26, 2007 1:42 PM CST

(Newser) – Vanuatu, a former Anglo-French colony once called the world's happiest country, is de-emphasizing cash in favor of traditional forms of exchange: shells, necklaces, grass mats, and pigs. The Telegraph travels to the South Pacific, where Vanuatu's government decreed a "Year of the Traditional Economy,... Read full story »

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