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  2. Silent trade - Wikipedia

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    Silent trade, also called silent barter, dumb barter ("dumb" here used in its old meaning of "mute"), or depot trade, is a method by which traders who cannot speak each other's language can trade without talking. Group A would leave trade goods in a prominent position and signal, by gong, fire, or drum for example, that they had left goods.

  3. Trade beads - Wikipedia

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    Trade beads from ca. 1740, found in a Wichita village site in present-day Oklahoma Nineteenth-century European trade beads found in Alaska Chugach woven spruce-root hat. Trade beads are beads that were used as a medium of barter within and amongst communities. They are considered to be one of the earliest forms of trade between members of the ...

  4. Capotain - Wikipedia

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    A capotain, capatain, copotain, or steeple hat is a tall-crowned, narrow-brimmed, slightly conical "sugarloaf" hat, usually black, worn by men and women from the 1590s into the mid-seventeenth century in England and northwestern Europe. Earlier capotains had rounded crowns; later, the crown was flat at the top.

  5. Coincidence of wants - Wikipedia

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    Within economics, this has often been presented as the foundation of a bartering economy. [3] In principle, double coincidence of wants would mean that both parties must agree to sell and buy each commodity. Under this system, problems arise through the improbability of the wants, needs, or events that cause or motivate a transaction occurring ...

  6. Barter - Wikipedia

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    The parties of the barter transaction are both equal and free. Neither party has advantages over the other, and both are free to leave the trade at any point in time. The transaction happens simultaneously. The goods are normally traded at the same point in time. Nonetheless delayed barter in goods may rarely occur as well. [12]

  7. Barter Kings - Wikipedia

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    Barter Kings is an American reality television series on A&E in the United States. The series premiered on June 12, 2012. [ 1 ] It features Antonio Palazzola and Steve McHugh as they trade items for better items without any currency exchange .

  8. Capirote - Wikipedia

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    A capirote [1] is a Christian pointed hat of conical form that is used in Spain and Hispanic countries by members of a confraternity of penitents, ...

  9. Countertrade - Wikipedia

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    Countertrade also occurs when countries lack sufficient hard currency, or when other types of market trade are impossible.. In 2000, India and Iraq agreed on an "oil for wheat and rice" barter deal, subject to United Nations approval under Article 50 of the UN Persian Gulf War sanctions, that would facilitate 300,000 barrels of oil delivered daily to India at a price of $6.85 a barrel while ...