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Photo by Tom Joyce
Copper Currency, (HX type)
Photo by Tom Joyce

Copper Currency, (HX type)

Date13th - 17th century
Object number2007.173
Photo CreditPhoto by Tom Joyce
Exhibition HistoryAsheville, North Carolina, Life Force at the Anvil, A Blacksmith's Art from Africa, May 22 - August 28, 1998Published Referencesde Heusch, Luc, ed., Objects: Signs of Africa, Ghent, Belgium: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1996 p. 133-145 Herbert, Eugenia W. Red Gold of Africa: Copper in Precolonial History and Culture. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984 p.186-195 Cline, Walter. Mining and Metallurgy in Negro Africa. Mensha: George Bauta Publishing Company, 1937
Credit LinePartial gift of Tom Joyce and partial purchase with funds from John and Robyn Horn
Dimensions1 1/4 x 1 x 1/4 in. (3.2 x 2.5 x 0.6 cm)
MediumCopper alloy
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ca. 1735
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ca. 1860
Object number: 91.1.37
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19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.178
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19th - early 20th century
Object number: 2007.171
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19th - 20th century
Object number: 2007.143
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18th - 19th century
Object number: 2007.155
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18th - 19th century
Object number: 2007.157
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19th century
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Pyxis (box with lid)
Greek, Attica
mid - late 8th century B.C.
Object number: 63.69