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Venetian and Bohemian glass beads

Etched metal with interlocking removable shape. Circle and diamond patterns

metal/etched

Spatulate-ends with heavy yellow brass ring (Opitz 2000)

brass, golden-colored bar bent into ring, cross-hatched etchings

Used as currency in near Papua New Guinea.

Thin iron sticks with round flat tips. Kissi penny, also seen transcribed as kissy or kisi penny or known as guenze, koli, and kilindi, was an iron currency made in Sierra Leone that circulated widely in the immediate vicinity of its production among…