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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ardatirion, post: 2538888, member: 9204&quot;]Hm. I generally don&#039;t buy single coins that jump out to me, but very rarely I&#039;ll add a new collecting interest. I try to read up on the area for about three or four weeks, and if it still calls to me I&#039;ll pick up a few pieces. A couple of areas auditioned for the role recently - Mexican Revolutionary coins, Malaysian cash, Sogdian bronzes – but none of them made it to the final round. Here&#039;s a few that have:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Islamic Coins of East Africa</b> (mostly very rare, I&#039;ve purchased all of the types that I&#039;ve seen on the market)</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_00074x00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>EAST AFRICA, Kilwa Sultanate. <i>al-Hasan bin Sulayman.</i></b> Circa AH 715 / AD 1315</p> <p style="text-align: center">Æ Fals (20 mm, 1.92 g, 9h)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Kilwa Kisiwani mint</p> <p style="text-align: center">Inscription in five lines</p> <p style="text-align: center">Inscription in three lines</p> <p style="text-align: center">Album 1183; Walker, <i>Kilwa</i> VIII; SICA 10, 613-21 </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><b>Native American &quot;proto-currency&quot; </b>(I&#039;m missing the abalone shells of California and Incan quipu, the later of which are pretty much unavailable)</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_00060x00.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>MEXICO, Aztec culture.</b> Circa AD 1200/1300-1525</p> <p style="text-align: center">Æ “Hachuela” (143mm x 150mm, 55.70 g) </p> <p style="text-align: center">Mushroom-shaped bronze pseudo-axe-head with curved “blade” and flanged shank </p> <p style="text-align: center">Hosler, Lechtman, &amp; Holm, <i>Axe-monies and their Relatives</i>, type 2a</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_DSC_4480.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>UNITED STATES, Native proto-currency. <i>Northern Pacific coast.</i></b> 18th-early19th century</p> <p style="text-align: center">Shell “kop-kop” (29mm by 6mm, 0.38 g)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Tubular shell of the <i>dentalium</i> genus of mollusks</p> <p style="text-align: center">Robert Stearns, <i>Ethno-conchology: A Study of Primitive Money</i> p. 314-321</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/18271/normal_IMG_1361.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>UNITED STATES, Native proto-currency. <i>Seneca tribe</i>.</b></p> <p style="text-align: center"><b>Ganounata village (Honeoye Falls, NY)</b>. Circa AD 1625-1687</p> <p style="text-align: center">White wampum beads (apx. 5mm, 0.10g each)</p> <p style="text-align: center">Carved white shell beads with lateral hole for suspension in belt</p> <p style="text-align: center">Cf. William Martin Beauchamp, <i>Wampum and Shell Articles Used by the New York Indians</i>, p. 369 </p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">Found at the Dann Farm site in Honeoye Falls, NY.</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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