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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clinker, post: 850432, member: 6229&quot;]Have you ever heard of Mabila money?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While searching for something different/strange/newsworthy/littleknown, I came upon a commemorative coin issued by Cameroon in 2005 commemorating the Primitive iron money of the indiginous Mabila Tribe whose people occupied a territory in Northeast Cameroon near the Nigerian border. Thanks to the courtesy of Don&#039;s World Coin Gallery here is a photo of that commemorative coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine_wd.php?dir=img16&amp;image=34-26&amp;desc=Cameroon%20km26%201500%20CFA%20Francs%20(2005)%20Primative%20Mambila%20money&amp;query=Cameroon%20mambila" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine_wd.php?dir=img16&amp;image=34-26&amp;desc=Cameroon%20km26%201500%20CFA%20Francs%20(2005)%20Primative%20Mambila%20money&amp;query=Cameroon%20mambila" rel="nofollow">http://worldcoingallery.com/countries/coine_wd.php?dir=img16&amp;image=34-26&amp;desc=Cameroon km26 1500 CFA Francs (2005) Primative Mambila money&amp;query=Cameroon mambila</a>.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To know more about the Mabila people you can visit:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/Archive/intro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/Archive/intro.html" rel="nofollow">http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/dz/Archive/intro.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a website maintained by Scott Semans which has a good many photos of Mabila <b><i>Bat</i></b> or <b><i>Hoe </i></b>money. Some are photos of Mabila Money for sale and some are archived photos of &quot;already sold&quot; Mabila money. I present this link only as a way to see photos of the different forms of Mambila money, not as a recommendation of Scott Semans nor his firm (however I had satisfactory transactions buying a great many gold Fanams from him 30-35 years ago):</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.hamillgallery.com/CURRENCY/MAMBILACURRENCY/MambilaCurrency1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.hamillgallery.com/CURRENCY/MAMBILACURRENCY/MambilaCurrency1.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.hamillgallery.com/CURRENCY/MAMBILACURRENCY/MambilaCurrency1.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Was this interesting?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Clinker[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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