KAGIN'S MARCH 11-15, 2021 AUCTION

Lot: 4216 Header: Title: Salt Brick, Salt Basket Description: Salt has been used in many parts of the world for money since antiquity. This lo

Lot: 4217 Header: Title: Salt Bar, Ex Detroit Money Museum Description: A 6-1/2 lb. bar of salt about 11" long , called a dibanda, was the sta

Lot: 4218 Header: Title: Rare West African Iron Currencies Description: In the Ivory Coast, West Africa, irregular iron ingots called somba we

Lot: 4219 Header: Title: Giant Spearheads Description: This lot has two examples of spears with giant rhomboid spearheads made in the Kinshasa

Lot: 4220 Header: Title: Rare Body Paint Cakes Description: Redwood or red camwood powder, called ngola by the Bobangi Tribe, was used for bod

Lot: 4222 Header: Title: Geometric Gold Weight Collection Description: A collection of over 30 varieties of Akan/Ashanti geometric gold weight

Lot: 4223 Header: Title: More Geometric Gold Weights Description: Another group of Akan/Ashanti gold weights, over 20 pieces. See Opitz, pp. 3

Lot: 4224 Header: Title: Very Rare Throwing Knife Description: This scary-looking throwing knife is called a woshele. In the early 1900s, it w

Lot: 4225 Header: Title: Tibetan Coral Beads Description: Marco Polo reported that the Tibetans “use no coined money, nor even the pa

Lot: 4226 Header: Title: Fine Original Dzi Bead Description: The rare dZi beads of Tibet, made many ears ago from worked agates, are eagerly s

Lot: 4227 Header: Title: Genuine Dzi Bead Description: Genuine dZi beads with white bands were considered to be of lesser value than those wit

Lot: 4228 Header: Title: Dzi Bead, Gzi Beads Description: This lot has another genuine dZi bead with a black band around a white cylinder, sli

Lot: 4229 Header: Title: Turtle Shell Pattern DZi Bead Description: Two further dZi beads: a tabular dZi bead, spherical, white with a black d

Lot: 4230 Header: Title: Ancient Burmese Pumtek Beads Description: A group of ancient Burmese pumtek beads made from opalized palm wood by the

Lot: 4231 Header: Title: Burmese Betel Nut Boxes Description: Betel nuts are chewed for their stimulant properties throughout much of Oceania

Lot: 4232 Header: Title: Betel Nut Boxes, Silver and Bronze Description: Two further Burmese betel nut boxes: a round silver container covered

Lot: 4233 Header: Title: Imitation Cowry Shell Collection, Ex Detroit Money Museum Description: In ancient China, cowry shells were so valuabl

Lot: 4234 Header: Title: Hmong, Lahu Silver Earrings Description: Among the hill tribes of Indochina, silver earrings were a portable form of

Lot: 4235 Header: Title: Indochina Hill Tribe Earrings Description: Another pair of silver earrings of the Hmong people, very ornate for these

Lot: 4236 Header: Title: Extremely Rare, Pedigreed, Atayal Headhunter Money Jacket Description: Perhaps the rarest and most valuable item (at

Lot: 4237 Header: Title: Rare Burma Kyee-Zee Gong Description: The Karen hill tribe of Burma made giant, squat gongs of thick copper, with a s

Lot: 4238 Header: Title: China, Souvenir Money Tree, Fundo Shape Description: China, souvenir bronze money tree with 11 fundo-shaped pieces wi

Lot: 4239 Header: Title: Souvenir Bronze Money Tree, 16 Pieces Description: Another souvenir bronze money tree from China, with a 16-piece mix

Lot: 4240 Header: Title: Original Jia Qing Money Tree, Hubei Province Mint Description: Rare 24-piece genuine Chinese cash coin money tree, Ji

Lot: 4241 Header: Title: Money Tree for Birthday of Emperor Dao Guang Description: China, 16-piece brass "money tree" for the birthday...

Lot: 4242 Header: Title: Burmese Tribal Necklaces Description: Two fascinating necklaces made by the Chin Tribe of Burma: (1) Three strings of

Lot: 4243 Header: Title: Another Tribal Necklace Description: A third necklace from the Chin Tribe, Burma: ten strands of glass trade beads of

Lot: 4244 Header: Title: Old set of Opium Weights Description: Burma, graduated set of 7 “opium” weights, very old (collecte

Lot: 4245 Header: Title: Mounted Opium Weight Set, Old Description: Mounted set of 7 “Antique Siamese Money Weights,” Lion T

Lot: 4246 Header: Title: Very Old Opium Weight Set Description: Mounted set of 7 “Weights for Ancient Siamese Money, Bird ‘S

Lot: 4247 Header: Title: Collection of Siamese Porcelain Tokens Description: A colorful collection of 61 genuine original Siamese porcelain ga

Lot: 4248 Header: Title: Colorful Group of Siamese Porcelain Tokens Description: A second group of over 70 genuine Siamese porcelain gambling

Lot: 4249 Header: Title: Genuine Siamese Porcelain Token Collection Description: A third collection of 70 genuine Siamese porcelain gambling t

Lot: 4250 Header: Title: Rare Sweden Plate Money 1/2 Daler 1721 Description: Sweden, Plate Money, Frederick I, ½ Daler 1721 Avesta Min

Lot: 4251 Header: Title: Sweden Plate Money 1 Daler 1734 Description: Sweden, Plate Money, Adolf Frederick I, 1 Daler 1734 Avesta Mint, KM PM8

Lot: 4252 Header: Title: Sweden Plate Money 2 Daler 1724 Description: Sweden, Plate Money, Frederick I, 2 Daler 1724 Avesta Mint, KM PM71, EF

Lot: 4253 Header: Title: Rare Sweden Plate Money 4 Daler 1735 Description: Sweden, Plate Money, Frederick I, 4 Daler 1735 Avesta Mint, KM PM74

Lot: 4254 Header: Title: 1791 Playing Card Money Description: France, 1791 playing card money for 20 sols issued by Ville de Saint-Maixent dur

Lot: 4255 Header: Title: 1574 Leiden "Prayer Book" Money Description: Netherlands, Leiden, besieged by the Spanish, May 26-October 3, 1...

Lot: 4256 Header: Title: Spondylus Shell Bead Strings Description: Modern string containing spondylus spines, black and white shell beads, and

Lot: 4257 Header: Title: Medieval Andean Axe Money Collection Description: A collection of medieval copper axes and similar shapes used as cur

Lot: 4258 Header: Title: Unusual/Unpublished Andean Axe Money Description: A second collection of medieval Ecuador/Peru copper currency object

Lot: 4259 Header: Title: Nearly Complete Mexican Axe Money Type Collection Description: A collection of Mexican axe money in a virtually compl

Lot: 4260 Header: Title: Iron Trade Axes Description: North America, 3 iron axes; two are Hudson’s Bay Indian trade axes 1700

Lot: 4261 Header: Title: Southwestern Indian Turquoise Pawn Necklace Description: After 1868, Navajo smiths began making articles from silver

Lot: 4262 Header: Title: "Made Beaver" Ex Detroit Money Museum Description: American Indian full "made beaver" pelt, 27”...

Lot: 4263 Header: Title: Mexican Chocolate Money Description: Round disks of chocolate were used as money in the districts near Campeche, Mexi

Lot: 4264 Header: Title: California Clamshell Money! Description: Pismo Beach, California, Restwell Cabins $1 California Clamshell Money, 3-5-

Lot: 4265 Header: Title: Dentalium Shell Belt Description: American Indian belt of 114 dentalium shells with leather spacers every 6 shells,

Lot: 4266 Header: Title: Copper Shield Fragment From Potlatch Description: The natives of Northwest Canada had a unique custom called potlatch

Lot: 4267 Header: Title: Complete Mounted Quetzal Bird Description: Mexico, Guatemala, mounted Quetzal Bird: this is the entire colorful bird,

Lot: 4268 Header: Title: Mexican Soap Money Description: Per Stuart Mosher, The Story of Money, 1936, p. 43, "Small cakes of soap were once le

Lot: 4269 Header: Title: Old Walrus Tusk Description: An old walrus tusk, 12” long. In the period 1313-1326, tithes were collected in

Lot: 4270 Header: Title: Genuine New England Wampum Description: Genuine New England Wampum, Native American, string of 65 purple & white wamp

Lot: 4271 Header: Title: Wampum Beads, Ex William Anton Description: Modern string of tubular white and purple beads with pink cloth ends, 47

Lot: 4272 Header: Title: Campbell Wampum Description: Campbell wampum, 21” strand, 21 beads each averaging 7/8” long, excell

Lot: 4273 Header: Title: Iroquois Campbell Wampum Description: Typical Campbell wampum beads 5/8” long as used by Iroquois Tribe, Ne

Lot: 4274 Header: Title: Medieval Mound Builder Shell Beads Description: Two strings of American Indian Mound Builder shell beads, from the Gr

Lot: 4275 Header: Title: Clamshell Bead Strings Description: Two strings of circular clamshell beads: (1) about 35" long, with 3/8”

Lot: 4276 Header: Title: Square-Cut Shell Bead String Description: A short string of tiny square-cut olivella shell beads, used on the Pacific

Lot: 4277 Header: Title: Rare Kandangei Shell Money String Description: Papua New Guinea, Shell belt money used in the small village of Kanda

Lot: 4278 Header: Title: Small Red Feather Money Description: Santa Cruz Red Feather Money, an unusual small-- 6cm width—rectangular

Lot: 4279 Header: Title: Arsenal of Tribal Knife & Axe Money Description: Nigeria and Congo, Mongo Tribe: Mongo Tribal Knife with Sheath; two

Lot: 4280 Header: Title: Trio of Ceremonial Knife, Staff and Mace Description: Variant Pattern Songe-Uba Region (Kasai River Area of the Congo

Lot: 4281 Header: Title: African Knife and Hoe Money Description: Large African Knife of rare pattern, Opitz pp.157-158; Double Hoe, Opitz p.

Lot: 4282 Header: Title: Zaire Executioners Knife and Throwing Knives Description: Ngala or Ngombe (Zaire) large and elaborate Executioners K

Lot: 4283 Header: Title: African Ceremonial Knives Description: Congo (?), Zande Tribe, Knife in Sheath with crocodile design, Opitz pp. 180,1

Lot: 4284 Header: Title: African Large and Elaborate Cameroon Ceremonial Axe Money Description: Elaborate Ceremonial Axe, with tag identifying

Lot: 4285 Header: Title: Globular Women’s Anklet and Leg Band Description: Zaire, Mbole Tribe Globular Women’s Anklet mounte

Lot: 4286 Header: Title: African Coiled and Copper Bar Money Description: Nigeria, rare coiled Manilla; see Opitz pp 209-15. The word

Lot: 4287 Header: Title: African Sword and Sickles Description: African agricultural implement (?) 3 ft. 2 in. long with crook end and attache

Lot: 4288 Header: Title: Diverse Offering of African Bracelet Money Description: Collection of 15 fine, heavy African Bracelets; Southern Saha

Lot: 4289 Header: Title: Collection of 140 Siamese Porcelain Tokens Description: Thailand, collection of seven 20-pocket plastic pages in 2 X

Lot: 4290 Header: Title: Rare Cannon Money Mounted on Carriage Description: Rare and famous 19th Century Cannon Money used in Borneo, Brunei.

Lot: 4291 Header: Title: Exotic Bali and Brunei Gong Money Description: Dutch East Indies, Bali, 13” Gong, cf. Opitz p. 151; Brunei,

Lot: 4292 Header: Title: Buddhist Seals Description: Tibet, Two Buddhist Seals, brass; large antique bronze statue of a horseman. 3 pcs. Low E

Lot: 4293 Header: Title: Two Different Brick Tea Money Description: Two Chinese Brick Tea tablets, one from the 19th Century with inscriptions

Lot: 4294 Header: Title: South American Andean Ceremonial Feather Collar Description: Peru or Ecuador ca. late 19th-early 20th century. Th

Lot: 5001 Header: Electrum Third-Stater of Lydia Title: Lydia. Circa 610-546 BC Electrum Third-Stater. Choice VF NGC. Dies as illustrated. Strike:

Lot: 5002 Header: Silver Half-Stater / Siglos of Lydia Title: Lydia. Croesus or Later. Circa 561 BC Silver Half Stater / Siglos. Choice VF * NGC.

Lot: 5003 Header: Lustrous AU Gold Stater of Alexander III Title: Kingdom of Macedon. Alexander III, the Great. 336-323 BC Gold Stater. Lifetime-E

Lot: 5004 Header: Excellent Alexander III Tetradrachm Title: Kingdom of Macedon. Alexander III, the Great. 336-323 BC Silver Tetradrachm. Lifetime

Lot: 5005 Header: AU Alexander III Tetradrachm Title: Kingdom of Macedon. Alexander III, the Great. 336-323 BC Silver Tetradrachm. Posthumous. AU

Lot: 5006 Header: VF Alexander The Great Tetradrachm Title: Kingdom of Macedon. Alexander III, the Great. 336-323 BC Silver Tetradrachm. Posthumou

Lot: 5007 Header: Choice AU Silver Didrachm of Rhodes Title: Greece. Isle of Rhodes. Caria. Circa 3rd Century BC Silver Didrachm. Choice AU* NGC.

Lot: 5008 Header: EF Ptolemaic Kingdom Silver Decadrachm Title: Ptolemaic Kingdom. Arsinoe II. Alexandria. Circa 265-241 BC Silver Decadrachm. EF

Lot: 5009 Header: Mint State Phoenicia Tetradrachm Title: Phoenicia. Sidon. Caracalla. AD 198-217 Billon Tetradrachm. MS NGC. Description: Die

Lot: 5010 Header: Mint State Thracian Gold Stater Title: Thrace-Scythia. Coson, after 52 BC. Gold Stater. Mint State NGC. Description: Dies a

Lot: 5011 Header: Exceptional Denarius of C. Servius Vatia Title: Rome. Republic. C. Servius Vatia. Circa 127 BC Silver Denarius. Choice Mint Stat

Lot: 5012 Header: Denarius of L. Thorius Balbus Title: Rome. Republic. L. Thorius Balbus. Circa 105 BC Silver Denarius. Choice VF NGC. Descri

Lot: 5013 Header: Choice EF Silver Caesar Denarius Title: Rome. Imperial. Julius Caesar. Circa 48-47 BC Silver Denarius. Choice EF NGC. Descr

Lot: 5014 Header: VF Bronze As of Claudius Title: Rome. Empire. Claudius. AD 41-54 Bronze As. Choice VF NGC. Description: Dies as illustrated

Lot: 5015 Header: Claudius & Agrippina, Jr. Silver Cistophorus Title: Rome. Empire. Claudius & Agrippina, Jr. Circa AD 51 Silver Cistophor...

Lot: 5016 Header: Bronze Sestertius of Nero Title: Rome. Empire. Nero. AD 54-68 Bronze Sestertius. Fine NGC. Description: Dies as illustrated

Lot: 5017 Header: AU Silver Denarius of Trajan Title: Rome. Empire. Trajan. AD 98-117 Silver Denarius. AU NGC. Description: Dies as illustrat

Lot: 5018 Header: Exceptional Septimus Severus Billon Tetradrachm Title: Rome. Laodicea, Syria. Septimus Severus. AD 193-211 Billon Tetradrachm. C

Lot: 5019 Header: Uncirculated Caracalla Billon Tetradrachm Title: Rome. Carrhae, Mesopotamia. Caracalla. AD 198-217 Billon Tetradrachm. Choice Mi

Lot: 5020 Header: Impressive AU Macrinus Denarius Title: Rome. Empire. Macrinus. AD 217-218 Silver Denarius. Long Beard Type. Choice AU NGC.

Lot: 5021 Header: Choice Maximinus I Silver Denarius Title: Rome. Empire. Maximinus I. AD 235-238 Silver Denarius. EF NGC. Description: Dies

Lot: 5022 Header: Uncirculated Gordian III Double Denarius Title: Rome. Empire. Gordian III. AD 238-244 Silver Double Denarius. Mint State NGC.