I should prolly trade off a few pieces my self. I have some experience many decades ago trading for beaver but there’s no remaining evidence. Maybe you could give a few pointers on trading otter? There’s a few around that might go by the pound?
In the smaller communities here in Alaska it is not all that uncommon. I’m not a fan of furs; they are too difficult for me to convert. It just happened I was able to turn these into something more negotiable fairly quickly.
I’m more comfortable trading gold, silver, fish, venison or moose meat for goods and services informally. I think we are going to be doing more of that.