Angas Monumental Ceremonial Hoe Currency, Based

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This monumental ceremonial hoe currency comes from the Angas people of northern Nigeria and dates to the 20th century. It is forged iron. Across parts of West Africa, oversized iron blades served less as farm tools than as stores of value, exchanged in marriage payments and other weighty transactions. The blade is a broad arch, flaring to short wings at the bottom, with a small tang set into a black stepped stand. The surface is brown and pitted, rough as bark. Thirty-nine inches high and twenty-seven wide.

Few people have been robbed of one on the way home.