The stones provide scarcity and a means of introducing new currency into the money supply. The actual transferrence process could be modernized with a traditio

The stones provide scarcity and a means of introducing new currency into the money supply. The actual transferrence process could be modernized with a traditional database, or a decentralized blockchain. The claims to the stones could even be turned into ERC721 non-fungible tokens, or for even greater liquidity, each one could represent some large quantity of fungible ERC20 tokens, so that people could own a small percentage of a stone instead of an all-or-nothing proposition.