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Cowrie or cowry (plural cowries) is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.

In Orissa, India, cowry (popularly known as kaudi) was used as currency till 1805 when it was abolished by the British East India Company. This was one of the causes of the Paik Rebellion in 1817.

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