Mexican town creates its own currency

McClatchy Newspapers - Organizers in the verdant hill town of Espinal in Veracruz state have coaxed a tiny economic experiment on the citizenry: They created an alternative local currency, called the "tumin," which means "money" in the Totonac language.

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