Kissi currency - Lot 252

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Kissi currency - Lot 252
Kissi currency Guinea Bissau Iron This kissy pennies bundle - named after the currency of the Upper Makona Basin - is part of the great tradition tradition of iron coins, more commonly known as "guinzes" in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone. While iron bars have been traditionally used as a means of payment for several centuries as a means of payment, the coins we know as kissy penny are thought to have been manufactured since the 1800s, and continued to be used until the 1940s in Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone, and 1980 in Liberia. They take the form of full-length twisted stems, which the Toma length, which the Toma call samave, extended by oval blades at one end, and a curved head at the other end.
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