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Idang manilla coiled currency, Cross River area, Nigeria

9.5" long x 3.5" tall
copper
from the Alan Helms collection, Boston, MA

$350

For additional examples and information on this type of currency, see pages 209-215 of An Ethnographic Study of
Traditional Money
by Charles J. Opitz.
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