“Equally remarkable…is the native money of Yap… These pieces of money are disks of aragonite, a stone in appearance, like large crystals of quartz. …We had information of one piece…being nine feet four inches in diameter and weighed four and one half tons. These extraordinary stones are set up in front of the owner’s house, his importance and wealth being betokened by the number of “dollars” he can set up.”

J. R. LeHunte, “Report of HMS

Espiegle,” October 10, 1883