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Old 25th November 2018, 07:16 PM   #21
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I will add to the ...
- XVI century Benin bronze of a Portuguese soldier (London -museum of Mankind),
- Some stats on the Slave trafic, now roughly translated.
- A few examples of the manilha range (and not only), with respective captions, which show us that, the use of these pre-coinage resources was not unique (or even contemporary) to the Slaves trade (Courtesy Money Museum).


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