there are some markings on the sides although very unclear i hope I could capture it on the photo's
any ideas where to look or is it a hairpin haha?
accuired them like this
larger one weighs 2.8 grams (0.096 oz)exactly the smaller one is 3.17 (0112 oz) think material is bronze larger one is 3.8 cm and smaller one is about 3.2 cm
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.
Yes. It is a form of "primitive money" known as a "larin" (plural: lari). Unfortunately, their Wikipedia article is rather sparse on details. They are commonly known as "fish-hook money", although this type is also known as "hairpin money".
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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.'
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