Currency, paper; 10 Shillings; picture of palm tree and rising or setting sun at left center; Serial # GS0822880; L 12.3 cm X W 6.0 cm.
Donor:
Burton Benedict and University Appropriation
Collection place:
Africa
Verbatim coll. place:
Africa; Biafra
Collector:
Burton Benedict
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Paper money and Shilling (unit of currency)
Function:
7.5 Issued Currency and Associated Containers
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Comment:
Biafra was a region of Nigeria, largely inhabited by the Ibo, which attempted to become an independent state in 1967, issuing its own currency; it was reconquered by Nigeria in 1970.