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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 427000, member: 12789&quot;]I had read somewhere that if these pieces were broken, you would have to take them to some &quot;miracle worker&quot; to restore their souls, ie weld them back together.&nbsp; Sometime I would like to find one of these, but they are so large that they are not convenient material to collect.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a Katanga cross that I got on the cheap on eBay a couple of years ago:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.geocities.com/scottishmoney/bigcoins/katangacross.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the African monies are indeed very fascinating.&nbsp; Unfortunately there is not a lot of documentation as to how they were used in commerce, who made them etc. because the Europeans really wanted these so called primitive monies to go away and be replaced by their colonial coinage etc.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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