Old Antique African Bronze Child's Currency Bracelet

Description

You will receive a very nice child's currency bracelet. 6.2 ounces
This item may contain copper and iron.
A little about the item in this listing
On the west coast of Africa, from the Congo, north to Senegal, bronze bracelets( properly called Manillas) were worn both for personal adornment and for as money. Their use dates back to at least the late 16th century and possible earlier
The word 'manilla' comes from the portuguese word for bracelet. When the portuguese arrived in benin, nigeria, in the fifteenth century, they quickly started trading brass and copper for pepper, cloth and slaves. In the 1490s a portuguese trader wrote that at benin copper bracelets were more highly prized than brass ones