Kissi pennies

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Title

Kissi pennies

Description

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 Gbandi (Bandi), Gola, Kissi, Kpelle, Loma, Mandinka and Mende and other people of Liberia and Sierra Leone and Guinea-Conakry. Find out more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissi_penny

Source

Purchased at the London Coin Gallery, Long Beach.

Identifier

O-030

Files

kissipennies.jpg

Citation

“Kissi pennies,” IMTFI Archives, accessed April 24, 2024, https://imtfiarchives.omeka.net/items/show/1065.

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