Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Currency hammer

Burma

 

Collected by Richard Carnac Temple

Given to the Museum in 1892

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In the nineteenth century, lumps of silver and lead were used as currency in Burma. A lump’s value was based on its weight and purity. To buy or sell at a market, an individual needed a lump of metal, a hammer, a chisel, and scales. This hammer was for cutting lump lead currency. It was collected in the late nineteenth century.

View database record 1892.41.495