40137

Rare Nigerian Cup-Shaped Iron Currency

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:10.00 USD Estimated At:200.00 - 400.00 USD
Rare Nigerian Cup-Shaped Iron Currency
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This item SOLD at 2021 Mar 16 @ 07:31UTC-7 : PDT/MST

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Title: Rare Nigerian Cup-Shaped Iron Currency
Description: Per Ballarini, The Perfect Form: On the Track of African Tribal Currency (Milan, 2009), p. 165, this object is described as a circular cup-shaped currency unit of the Hausa Tribe of Nigeria, but see p. 68. Sven-Olof Johanansson, Nigerian Currencies, 2nd ed. (Skolgatan, Sweden, 1967), reports observing similar pieces in Nigeria, but considers them hoes and attributes them to Gombe; he calls this type kwasunting or kwadumpe (both illustrated by simple line drawings, so difficult to distinguish); kwasunting were used by the Tangale Tribe in Kaltungo; bride price was 50 kwasunting or 25 kwadumpe (pp. 37-40). In Johansson's Nigerian Primitive Currency Values (Beirut, 1968), p. 11, he notes "some of the hoes are known in one specimen only, others in a very few; most of them are extremely rare." The value for each type was given as $80 in 1968.
Low Estimate: 200
High Estimate: 400
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