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The bars generally weigh between 0.5 and 0.3 kg [2] Spit shaped bars are the most commonly found representing half of all finds. [3] Sword shaped bars make up another 40 percent. [3] Iron currency bars have been found in some numbers in hill-forts With 27 being found at Hod Hill. [4] [5] The bars found at Danebury appear to have been into the ...
The bars generally weigh between 0.3–0.5 kg (0.66–1.10 lb). [6] Spit-shaped bars are the most commonly found, representing half of all finds. [7] Sword-shaped bars make up another 40 percent. [7] What appears to be iron bar currency was mentioned in Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico. [8]
In the French Congo, iron bars, shovels, hoes, blades, and iron double bells played the role of currency. In mid-nineteenth-century Nigeria, a slave cost 40 iron hoes. In 1824, 394 currency bars were found, 1.2m below the surface, at a re-used camp on Meon Hill, [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Mickleton, Gloucestershire .
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An inflation gauge that is closely watched by the Federal Reserve barely rose last month in a sign that price pressures cooled after two months of sharp gains. The milder inflation figures arrive ...
Moravian axe-shaped bars are iron bars stylized into the shape of long axes made by the Great Moravians during the 9th and early 10th centuries AD. These archaeological finds have primarily been found in the former core of Great Moravia, in what is today the region of Moravia in the Czech Republic , and western Slovakia .
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