贝币,是指用海贝做为货币,它是云南最早出现的用于商品交换的货币。在此以前,云南不少地区都以牲畜、布匹、粮食、食盐充当过商品交换的一般等价物,但是,从未象海贝一样上升到可以交换任何商品的货币形态。海贝成为云南最早出现的货币,不是凭空想象,而是有充分依据的。在有文字记载之前,主要是通过考古发掘的实物为 Coin, refers to the shellfish as a currency, it is the earliest Yunnan currency for the exchange of goods. Prior to this, in many areas of Yunnan, livestock, cloth, grain, and salt were used as general equivalents for the exchange of commodities. However, they never rose as much as seashells to the currency form in which any commodity can be exchanged. Haibei became the earliest currency in Yunnan, not imagined, but there is sufficient evidence. Before there is written records, mainly through the archeological excavations in kind