Old Silvered Bronze Manilla Penanular African Slave Trade Bracelet Money This is an Old Silvered Bronze Manilla Penanular African Slave Trade Bracelet Money. The size is 6cm diameter, Condition as shown in the photos . Manillas (which were a traditional African exchange medium) were originally metal bracelets or armlets. Later forms were made of copper, bronze, or brass open rings (penannular or almost ring-like), often horse-shoe shaped with enlarged finial terminations. The term is derived from the Spanish for bracelet or manella or the Portuguese for hand-ring (Rees 2000). The origin is from the Latin manus (hand) or monilia, or monile the plural for necklace. The universal name for manillas, which are an ancient form of money or barter coinage, is Okpoho.
