currency
- Museum number
- Af1948,26.2
- Description
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'Ogoja penny' currency.
Flat Y-shaped iron bar with pointing edges. Also called 'iyayaw' or 'akaju'.
- Dimensions
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Height: 36 centimetres
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Width: 19.30 centimetres
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Depth: 0.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Register 1948:
Iron Y-shaped currency piece.
"EGEDE" penny collected about 1918 & even then rare.
Register 1948 later addition:
[EGEDE related to and covering? adjacent to the IDOMA cf Benue Province N.NIGERIA. See the Iama speaking People in RG Armstrong p 140 E.S.A Part X.]
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1948,26.2
