Shell money

Shell money - Prehistoric and historic currency using sea shells. Article “Shell money” in English Wikipedia has 48.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 17 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.54 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Shell money”, its content was written by 116 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 263 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 480 times in English Wikipedia and cited 911 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #60245 in December 2022
• Global: #44972 in March 2005

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #128446 in December 2017
• Global: #186858 in December 2017

There are 10 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 贝币		66.5325
2	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		59.3667
3	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		58.9422
4	English (en) Shell money		48.2845
5	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		25.2765
6	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		24.1321
7	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		16.1431
8	German (de) Muschelgeld		15.5119
9	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		14.7542
10	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		14.3862

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell money" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell money		881 688
2	German (de) Muschelgeld		161 931
3	Chinese (zh) 贝币		92 826
4	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		77 069
5	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		29 088
6	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		6 883
7	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		6 327
8	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		3 662
9	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		3 493
10	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		1 033

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Shell money" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Shell money		5 297
2	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		763
3	Chinese (zh) 贝币		709
4	German (de) Muschelgeld		590
5	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		120
6	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		114
7	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		35
8	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		27
9	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		23
10	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Shell money" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Shell money		116
2	German (de) Muschelgeld		47
3	Chinese (zh) 贝币		32
4	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		22
5	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		20
6	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		11
7	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		7
8	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		4
9	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		2
10	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		2

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Shell money" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		0
2	German (de) Muschelgeld		0
3	English (en) Shell money		0
4	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		0
5	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		0
6	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		0
7	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		0
8	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		0
9	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		0
10	Chinese (zh) 贝币		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Shell money" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Shell money		480
2	Arabic (ar) نقود صدفية		183
3	Chinese (zh) 贝币		131
4	German (de) Muschelgeld		42
5	Japanese (ja) 貝貨		29
6	Dutch (nl) Schelpengeld		17
7	French (fr) Monnaie de coquillages		11
8	Finnish (fi) Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat		9
9	Armenian (hy) Կաուրի խխունջներ		5
10	Hindi (hi) शंख मुद्रा		4

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نقود صدفية
de	German Muschelgeld
en	English Shell money
fi	Finnish Simpukan- ja kotilonkuorirahat
fr	French Monnaie de coquillages
hi	Hindi शंख मुद्रा
hy	Armenian Կաուրի խխունջներ
ja	Japanese 貝貨
nl	Dutch Schelpengeld
zh	Chinese 贝币

Best Rank

English: #128446 12.2017

Global: #186858 12.2017

Best Rank

English: #60245 12.2022

Global: #44972 03.2005

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