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2. Coin purse - Wikipedia

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   Antique Indian purse, used by women. The oldest known purse was found with Ötzi the Iceman who lived around 3,300 BC. Another early example is on Egyptian hieroglyphs, which show pouches worn around the waist. The purse-lid from the Sutton Hoo burial is a very elaborate, probably royal, metalwork cover for a (presumably) leather Anglo-Saxon ...

3. Handbag - Wikipedia

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   Women's fashion from 1830, including a reticule handbag from France [8] Until the late 1700s, both men and women carried bags. [9] Early modern Europeans wore purses for one sole purpose: to carry coins. Purses were made of soft fabric or leather and were worn by men as often as ladies; the Scottish sporran is a survival of this custom. In the ...

4. Money bag - Wikipedia

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   In various games, money bags (or bags of gold) tend to be used to represent treasure or points. In board games like Dungeon! (1975) a money bag is a treasure card, in Talisman (1983) as a card, and in Monopoly as a pawn/piece introduced in 1999.

5. Shell purse - Wikipedia

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   Shell purse made from a freshwater pearl mussel, Margaritifera shell. A shell purse is a type of coin purse that is made from whole or trimmed mollusk shells, especially from bivalve mollusc shells. These purses are of mainly novelty use and purchased as souvenirs of visits, etc. In the past, some were engraved or painted with floral or other ...

6. Kinchaku - Wikipedia

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   Matching kinchaku bags. Kinchaku (巾着, lit. ' cloth + wearing / on one's person ') is a traditional Japanese drawstring bag, used like a handbag (similar to the English reticule) for carrying around personal possessions; smaller ones are usually used to carry loose coinage (similar to a sagemono), cosmetics, lucky charms, hand warmers and other small items.

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