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<p>[QUOTE="Mark Metzger, post: 3553742, member: 86472"]While not exactly a coin, these pieces were used as currency for purchase of human slaves during the slave trade. It has become part of my educational collection, thanks to [USER=40017]@PaddyB[/USER] , and will be paired with our study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. There's even a line in the novella which discusses how the natives were paid with essentially worthless brass wire. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]944553[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944555[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Metzger, post: 3553742, member: 86472"]While not exactly a coin, these pieces were used as currency for purchase of human slaves during the slave trade. It has become part of my educational collection, thanks to [USER=40017]@PaddyB[/USER] , and will be paired with our study of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. There's even a line in the novella which discusses how the natives were paid with essentially worthless brass wire. [ATTACH=full]944553[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944554[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944555[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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