TY  - ADVS
ED  - Ayala Museum Research Team
TI  - Penniform gold barter rings
KW  - Currency (Coins, bank notes, paper money)
KW  - 1971
KW  - 8th-14th century
KW  - amrt
KW  - barter
KW  - cebu
KW  - commerce
KW  - currency
KW  - earrings
KW  - leyte
KW  - luzon
KW  - money
KW  - tantoco
KW  - trade
KW  - visayas
N1  - The small, uninscribed gold piece, shaped like a ring about half an inch in diameter, was one of the earliest forms of currency in the Philippines. It was used in barter around the 8th-14th centuries. Used in barter and similar to a penny in its circular form, this was known as a penniform gold barter ring.    The pieces shown here vary in size and thickness;  some are hollow, others solid,and a few mere gold foils. Some of them may have been used as earrings. The bigger rings were recovered in Cebu and Leyte, the rest in Laguna and Rizal
UR  - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Midsize/SS/SS00229a.jpg
UR  - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Thumb/SS/SS00229a.jpg
UR  - http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=SS00229
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