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One end characteristically ends in a bent T-shape, the other a flattened oval.", "primary": true }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 1999, "value": "1999-02-14", "latest": 1999, "primary": true } ], "historical": true, "source": "Horniman Museum. Conservation Section", "type": "object description", "value": "IRON KISSY CURRENCY" }, { "historical": true, "type": "object description", "value": "Kissi pennie long thin bar of wrought iron, twisted medially several times. One end called the foot is triangular like a fish tail, the other end is called the ear and is ovoid. The shape is probably best regarded as representing a conventionalised hoe." }, { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-04-09", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attribution": { "date": [ { "earliest": 2014, "value": "2014-04-09", "latest": 2014, "primary": true } ], "attributor": "Zetterstrom-Sharp, Johanna", "source": "object" }, "type": "commentary (online)", "value": "The Kissi penny was a form of currency used particularly in Sierra Leone and Liberia, though circulated along the whole coast of West Africa and Central Africa. 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