4181

Huge "Wife-Buying Money"

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:NA
Huge  Wife-Buying Money
Lot: 4181
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Title: Huge "Wife-Buying Money"
Description: Per Stuart Mosher, p. 51, "Another curious iron coin used for the same purpose is triangular shaped, of flat, brittle metal. This piece, called ensuba, was once current in the Bafia tribe of the French Cameroons." Mosher illustrated it in his Fig. 10; see Opitz, pp. 140-41 (this example shown).
Low Estimate: 800
High Estimate: 1500
Pedigree Collection: Ex Hans M.F. Schulman auction of the Howard Gibbs collection (Schulman did not know what it was).