Currency

Fali · Cameroon

Reference: MND-25

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Height
20 cm
Material
Iron

Old triangular-looking iron coin. Looks like a pallet, picker type. Many of the tools and tools of farming served as barter coins in most African ethnicities.…

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Full original description

Old triangular-looking iron coin. Looks like a pallet, picker type. Many of the tools and tools of farming served as barter coins in most African ethnicities. It may have been set on a handle.

Further technical information
Width
13 cm
Attributed period
First third of the century XX and previous

Details transcribed from the original catalogue; they are not a recent physical inspection.

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Cameroon. The country associated with the catalog is shown, not the current location of the piece.

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