Lobi Bronze Bracelet Currency

Smooth, honey-colored ring, with scratchy marks on the top and a gap between the ends.

This bracelet currency is Lobi, from Burkina Faso, West Africa, and dates to the 20th century. It is bronze. In parts of West Africa, metal rings and bracelets were used as a store of value and in payments such as bridewealth. On inspection, a rounded band that is mostly smooth, with a few incised diagonal lines at the top and bands of short hatching near each end. The ends nearly meet, separated by a slim gap. The surface is a warm, burnished brown. It is 2.5 inches wide, 2.5 deep and 0.25 high.

Mostly smooth, with a few sentences scratched in.