Opals
Gemstones
Jewelry
Coins
No Reserve Gemstones
No Reserve Opals
No Reserve Jewelry
No Reserve Coins
West African Manilla 4 Products
Filters
Keywords
Price
Product type
Weight (g)
Year ()
Length (mm)
Width (mm)
Depth (mm)
African Manilla Currency Brass Bracelet shape
Iron money known as Manillas are from West Africa before the colonial days and varied in size and shape and designs and valued according to weight,and also by the sound they would make.
In 1505 One Manilla would buy you an elephant tooth or 10 manillas would buy you a slave.
Iron money was still in use till second world war and in 1948 the British recalled and melted over 32million manillas in exchange for their British Colonial coin currency.
