Is This Even Money?

I am gonna take a guess. My first thought is they are some sort of antique coin holder. I imagine some guy at the mint holding a coin with these inspecting it with a loope. But that's an imaginative guess.they look like tweasers.

Yes - the piece should be silver rather than bronze and they traded as bullion. I have a couple of examples from the Maldives but they traded all around the Indian ocean.

thank you for the help guys it is much appreciated !

i did trow in my most difficult piece I had ,2b honest
i'll try and search the net but without better inscriptions its almost impossible to find out where they are from




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this is about alli could find about bronze 'fishhook' pieces

'There are still in circulation in Nejd in Arabia small bars of silvered brass, which bear on the back Arabic inscriptions. It is hardly possible to doubt that in these little pieces of metal we have the last surviving descendants of 1 For larins cf. Prof. Rhys Davids, " On the Ancient Coins and Measures of Ceylon " (Numismata Orientalia, Vol. i. 68 " 73). Mr Rhys Davids makes no mention of the bronze fish-hooks, but there are a number of them in the British Museum.'


http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readb...000306110/41

Is this how cotter pins got started? And the spade coins look like shims.....