Vic, another great video: enlightening, respectful, unpretentious; like all of your travelogues! - I had read an interesting detail about these Yapese coins: When a transaction occured, the posession of the coin would indeed pass onto a new owner. But the coin remains in its place. Clearly, it would be rather impractical to try to stuff it into your wallet, or even roll it over to your front yard. That's why you see the vegetation and moss all over the coins. And the "bank" you are showing here seems quite an appropriate place to keep them. (Thanks for your response on Tuvalu air-strip video; enjoy your current stay in India!)
@VicStefanu7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your wonderful comments. True, these 'coins' never move around. What an incredible experience it was being there and videotaping the site...
@timmanagoudad45864 жыл бұрын
Thats an amazing Video on Origin of Money ...
@VicStefanu4 жыл бұрын
Hello, thank you for your comments!! 👍👍👍
@LL-sq8se6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the fascinating video!👍
@VicStefanu6 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@masterfarr82653 жыл бұрын
Oh Dimey, I'll never lose you again
@NatalieChickee7 жыл бұрын
beautiful video!
@VicStefanu7 жыл бұрын
Hello, thank you for your comments and for watching my videos!!
@omkr01225 жыл бұрын
Me first dime! - Mr. Krab
@COMMANDOF4F43 жыл бұрын
VERY NICE VIDEO, THANK YOU. IM INTERSTED IN THIS BECAUSE OF THE MOVIE: "HIS MAJESTY O'KEEFE" 1954, I WAS TEN, SAW IT ONE TIME AND WAS EXPLAINING FEYE AND YAP AND THE COCONUT TRADE OF THOSE ISLANDS TO MY PASTOR THAT IS FROM TANGA. DID YOU EVER MAKE A VIDEO ON HOW THESE STONES WERE MADE?
@VicStefanu3 жыл бұрын
It is not possible to make a video of how the stones are made because they do make them anymore! Thank you for your comments!
@Mario_64160Ай бұрын
This is where Mr crabs found his first dime
@VicStefanuАй бұрын
Very interesting, thank you!! 😊😊😊
@masterfarr82653 жыл бұрын
Mr Krabs: Me first dime
@bluebugaboo33446 жыл бұрын
Mister Krabs first dime!
@arielramngen70855 жыл бұрын
Stop
@jhoanrivero78853 жыл бұрын
A lot of money like gold or diamond
@VicStefanu3 жыл бұрын
That’s right! 👍👍👍
@ldfgbnghcfhgvjbkhn2 жыл бұрын
This is facinating: Bitcoin actually works in the same way in principle
@VicStefanu2 жыл бұрын
Very interesting thought, now that I am thinking about it, you may be right!
@ldfgbnghcfhgvjbkhn2 жыл бұрын
@@VicStefanu I first came across the Yap stones in Saifedean Ammous' The Bitcoin Standard and found the concept brilliant. No one can steal a property when its ownership is based on consensus.
@VicStefanu2 жыл бұрын
@@ldfgbnghcfhgvjbkhn Very true and once again, you made an excellent point..
@ismailullah27645 жыл бұрын
This is first BANK in history of mankind
@VicStefanu5 жыл бұрын
Probably..
@paolotorres8537Ай бұрын
Imagine that was your salary and had to carry it.
@VicStefanuАй бұрын
lol... or, put it in your wallet...
@guillermoperu806 жыл бұрын
PERÚ☼ ☻ !
@VicStefanu6 жыл бұрын
Thank you for viewing my videos!
@telesniper216 күн бұрын
That's not what they are. They're olympic weights used by ancient giants to work out. You can see the non-giant, mundane humans imitate this behavior from time to time when they mount the stones on a pole (bar) and do ceremonial lifts.
@VicStefanu13 күн бұрын
Very interesting, thank you for these comments!! 😊😊😊
@robertwahlstrom5 жыл бұрын
Umm, isn't it way way more likely that those are wheels from a civilization that pre dates the tribe that have these stones? Not sure why a small tribe that runs around with wooden sticks would create 2 - 3 meter large perfectly circular wheels. Those wheels also looks super old.
@VicStefanu5 жыл бұрын
Hello, thank you for your comments!! I think the locals would disagree with you regarding the age of these amazing rocks 'stone money'..
@deannabordelon85424 жыл бұрын
They carve them their self
@parisan99853 жыл бұрын
Most likely those tribe likely the ones done it. If there was really a civilization before, they wouldnt be wiped out defeated by tribes with sticks and there would have been ruins around it.
@edwinamugunbay51562 жыл бұрын
I'm from yap. The holes in the middle is more for transporting purposes. After all yaps stone moneys came from Palau Island