Southern Sudan, Spearhead, middle section decorated and barbed, iron, 26.8cm. Lightly rusted and a couple of barbs bent, otherwise very fine (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Macdonald Collection of Primitive Currency.

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Exhibition:
Spink and Son, ‘Curious Currencies of the World’, London, 1963, tray 5, catalogue pl.2.

Plate IV. Spearheads were prized and considered to have been used as currency as a result