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Nkuashu dowel currency
copper
from the Alan Helms collection, Boston, MA
ex private NYC collection
$375 for the group
"The rods with thickened center and ridges at both ends are though to have been used as bullion or
possibly as money in the period 950 A.D. to the mid 1500's according to Scott Semans." From "An
Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money" by Charles J. Opitz.
copper
from the Alan Helms collection, Boston, MA
ex private NYC collection
$375 for the group
"The rods with thickened center and ridges at both ends are though to have been used as bullion or
possibly as money in the period 950 A.D. to the mid 1500's according to Scott Semans." From "An
Ethnographic Study of Traditional Money" by Charles J. Opitz.
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