Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Fish-hook money

Sri Lanka

 

Collector not known

Given to the Museum by John Evans in 1893

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The shape or form of objects used as currency was often derived from non-currency objects. This is an example of stamped silver ‘fish hook’ money. The form originally derived from actual fish hooks. These were made in the seventeenth century.

View database record 1893.53.5