Description (Inscription)
On obverse: 'R.IMP.HU.BO.REG M.THERESIA.D.G.'
On reverse: 'BURG.CO.TYR.1780.X ARCHID.AUS.DUX.'
Event Date
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Production / use)
Catalogue card, note from David Phillipson: 'Maria Theresa silver Thalers were the principle currency circulating in Ethiopia during the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century. They continued to be produced in Europe, still dated 1780, into the 1930s. They are still frequently worn as jewellery in Ethiopia and are now being replicated in aluminium.'
Event Date 1997
Author: Katrina Dring

Context (Field collection)
Catalogue card: 'Purchased in the market at Bahar Dar on 01 April, 1997.'
Event Date 1/4/1997
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card: 'Cast aluminium pendant made from a silver Austro-Hungarian thaler struck for Maria Theresa and dated 1780.'
Event Date 1/6/1997
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pendant of an aluminium coin. Cast aluminium copy of an Austro-Hungarian thaler struck for Maria Theresa and dated 1780; cylindrical fitting cast onto the top for suspension.
Event Date 21/2/2022
Author: Katrina Dring