Sentence examples for used for barter from inspiring English sources

The earliest Chinese coins are small bronze hoes and knives, copies of the tools that previously had been used for barter.

During the gold rush, miners brought gold they dug up to assayers who tested it, melted it down, removed impurities and forged it into bars, which they stamped and certified and which were used for barter or sent to the United States Mint in Philadelphia.

Salt may have been used for barter in connection with the obsidian trade in Anatolia in the Neolithic Era.

Traditionally, more than 95% of cashmere from Ladakh has been used for barter with or sale to traders from the neighboring Kashmir region under a treaty with the erstwhile kingdom of Kashmir dating from 1684 (Rizvi 1999).

Botstein was biographically primed to catch the watch-collecting bug: his parents helped members of his mother's family survive the Warsaw Ghetto by sending them watches from Switzerland, which they used for bartering with Nazi officers.

Ideally, the foods should be shelf-stable, require no refrigeration, and even more ideally should be easy to use for bartering purposes in the event of emergency.

Directly, it is used for daily barter in villages for essentials and treats like rice, ice cream, cooking oil, sausage, beetle nuts, cigarettes, peanuts and more.

Women and their bodies are not disposable objects to be used for political bartering.

Each is either a weapon, a farm tool, a musical instrument or a piece of jewelry -- the things that Africans used for centuries as barter -- or a symbol created to look like one of these artifacts.

The man who makes them, Bernard von NotHaus, encourages their use for "barter," but warns customers that they are not legal tender.

If you barter for supplies and materials to be used for making artwork, the tax ramifications are different.