Auction Catalogue
Aden, Cut Indian Quarter-Rupees (2), of Victoria (3 of 4 segments from the same coin, Eighth, Sixteenth and Thirty-Second-Tola) and George VI (Sixteenth-Tolas [3] and Thirty-Second-Tola) (Prid. p. 27); West Indies (?), cut fractions of a Spanish or Spanish colonial 2-Reales (2); Russia, ‘Leather Money’ (3); British Colonies, small wooden tally sticks (6), each marked with initials E.F., and values, 12, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1-Cent [18]. Varied state (£25-50)
The Aden segments used as weights rather than currency
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