Re: Horses used as Money

WVanhou237 (wvanhou237@aol.com)
3 Oct 1996 05:16:28 -0400

In article <Roy.Davies-3009961014050001@dal21.onramp.net>,
Roy.Davies@exeter.ac.uk (Roy.Davies) writes:

>
>The Kirghiz people in what was the Soviet Union formerly used horses
>as currency, at least when that part of central Asia was part of the
>Russian empire. (See, for example, Einzig, Paul _ Primitive money_
>2nd ed Oxford : Pergamon Press, 1966, p. 107).
>
>Does anyone know when the Kirghiz actually stopped using horses as money?
>
>

Maybe when the Soviets took their horses to make them settle in one
place so they could more easily be controlled.


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