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Bar Currency, Kissi Penny

1991.14.0017

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Basic Information

Artifact Identification Bar Currency, Kissi Penny   (1991.14.0017)
Classification/
Nomenclature
  1. Communication Artifacts
    2. :
  2. Exchange Media
    3. :
  3. N/A
Artist/Maker Unknown
Geographic Location
Period Colonial
Date 1900 - 1930
Culture Kissi

Physical Analysis

Dimension 1 (Length) 46.3 cm
Dimension 2 (Width) 7.3 cm
Dimension 3 (Depth) 0.7 cm
Weight 68 g
Measuring Remarks N/A
Materials Metal--Iron
Manufacturing Processes Forging

Research Remarks

Description Under Review
Published Description N/A
Bibliography

Eyo, Ekpo. Nigeria and the Evolution of Money. Lagos: Central Bank of Nigeria, 1979.

Leonard, Gertrude Simpson. Our Africa Story: An Account of the work of the Woman's Home and Foreign Mission Society at Muhlenberg Mission, Liberia, Africa. Baltimore: General Literature Committee, Lutheran Church, 1918.

Artifact History

Credit Line/Dedication Gift of Edwin Hadley in Memory of Grover C. Leonard, Gertrude Simpson Leonard, Frances Hadley
Reproduction no

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