Context (Acquisition Details)
Collected and donated by C. S. Collier, CMS, Governor of the Bank of Abyssinia, Addis Ababa.

Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Four bars of salt, formerly used as currency. A = value $1 1/2. B = value $1. C = $1/2. D = $1/4.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (References)
Possibly the four salt bars illustrated in Quiggin, Alison Hingston (1949). A Survey of Primitive Money The beginnings of Currency. (Methuin & Co.: London), p. 56, fig., 8, "Salt currency, Abyssinia 1/2 size".
Event Date 1949
Author: Lily Stancliffe

Context (Display)
Exhibited in "Currency in Africa", hosted from June 2005-February 2006, captioned "Bar of salt. Salt was widely traded throughout the country, and other parts of Africa, increasing in value as it moved further from its source. Ethiopia. E 1931.170 D. F. Veys, 19/7/2006"
Event Date 2005
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Four bars of salt currency, each wrapped in plant fibre. A had a value of $1.5 at the time of collection; B of $1; C of $0.5 and D of $0.25.
Event Date 21/2/2022
Author: Lily Stancliffe