manilla;
currency
- Museum number
- Af1952,20.35
- Description
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'King Manilla' currency. Wide, horse-shoe shaped bronze, with slayed-out ends, incised with short lines.
- Production date
- 1894-1908 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 5 centimetres
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Width: 22.20 centimetres
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Depth: 17.30 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- King manillas represented high values and they were worth 100 of the small ones. In the XVIIIc slaves were bought with those types of manillas. One king manilla would be exchanged for one slave. At later times the values of both king manillas and slaves fluctuated.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1952
- Acquisition notes
- Af1952,20.1 to 142 were collected by Sir Raymond Menendez, Chief Justice of Nigeria, who worked in Nigeria between 1894 and 1908, and were given to the BM by his widow.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af1952,20.35