Using the links on the left you can view my trips, see photos of items, and purchase my book "An Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money". Other traditional money items may be available for purchase from time to time.  Charles Opitz- collector, author, publisher Charles J. Opitz has collected Odd & Curious, Primitive, or Traditional Money for over 50 years. At age seventeen he started his collection and was inspired by the rarity and amount of study needed to complete a collection. He has traveled to New Guinea, Africa, Russia, Solomon Islands, Trobriand Islands, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Yap, Palau, Greece, Tunisia, Kenya, Tanzania, and the Orient gathering items of Primitive money and art for his collection. |