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fibulae found in Ireland, which probably were armlets, are employed as money. Those which I have seen seem too small to be used as bracelets, and are now probably a true money, retaining the old conventional shape (see Fig. 12)[1].
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Fig. 12. Old Calabar copper-wire formerly used as money.
In the region of the Upper Congo brass rods are employed as currency for articles of small value. This wire, made at Birmingham, about the thickness of ordinary stair-rod, is sent out in coils of 60 lbs., and is then cut into pieces of a foot
- ↑ The specimens here figured are in the splendid collection of my friend Mr R. Day, of Cork.
