Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 International
Full screen
Initial display
Zoom in
Zoom out
Previous image
Next image
Downloads the object
Photographer: Larissa Arlt, JGU Mainz
Attribution 4.0 International
Full screen
Initial display
Zoom in
Zoom out
Previous image
Next image
Downloads the object
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Iron money
Iron money in the shape of a hoe. Short spike with a triangular hoe blade (13.5 cm), hence the name hoe blade or hoe money. The spike is 10 cm long and 19.5 cm long up to the rounding of the blade. The iron money was a means of payment or "implement money" and could also be forged into a hoe if required.
This content was machine-translated
- Data Provider
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Cataloguing data
- Cultural attribution
- Nzimu
- Object type
- Zahlungsmittel
- Dimensions
- Sheet 9.5 x 13.5 cm, mandrel 10 cm
- Material/Technique
-
iron (metal)
Forged
- Object genre
- money
- Current location
- Sammlungen der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
- Inventory number
- JGU ES 2565
- Other number(s)
-
2565 (Old inventory number)
LM: 54522 (Old inventory number)
Provenance and sources
-
Assignment to a curated holding:
-
Production
-
where
-
SüdkamerunKamerunZentralafrikaAfrika
-
-
Change of physical control:
Purchase-
where
-
StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
-
Description
-
K. Count von Linden bought property from L. von Stein zu Lausnitz.
-
-
Change of physical control
-
when
-
before 1907
-
where
-
SüdkamerunKamerunZentralafrikaAfrika
-
Description
-
Baron von Stein zu Lausnitz
-
-
Change of physical control:
Donation-
when
-
1907
-
where
-
StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
-
Description
-
K. Count von Linden donated the object to the Linden Museum.
-
-
Change of physical control:
Exchange-
when
-
15.12.1971
-
where
-
StuttgartBaden-WürttembergDeutschland
-
Description
-
JGU Mainz received object in exchange with Linden-Museum.
-
Information about the record
- Legal status metadata
- CC0 1.0 DEED
Related objects
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Iron money
Yar
Information about the language not available
Save
Means of payment
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Means of payment
raay
Information about the language not available
Save
Means of payment
tevau
Information about the language not available
Save
Means of payment
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Money ring manilla
fai/rai
Information about the language not available
Save
Means of payment
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Iron money
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Means of payment
This collection item does not have a name in the language of origin. If you know the name or have comments, use this form to contact the data-providing institution.
Save
Iron money
This content was machine-translated