Bar currency "Dubils" Yoruba

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背面描述	Entirely anepigraphic. The reverse, like the obverse, is devoid of any inscription, legend, or deliberate ornamentation. The iron bar displays a rough, twisted surface consistent with traditional West African iron currency manufacture, terminating at each end in a slightly flattened or knobbed terminal, characteristic of the Yoruba dubils type.
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附加信息	Dubbed "dubils" by European traders who encountered them along the West African coast, these heavy iron bars circulated as currency across Yoruba trade networks primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, functioning alongside other currency forms including cowrie shells and brass manillas. Iron itself carried intrinsic productive value — it could, in principle, be worked into tools — which grounded the currency in material utility rather than pure convention. British colonial administrators systematically suppressed bar currencies after 1900, viewing them as obstacles to sterling integration.

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