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East African Coin Finds and Their Historical Significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville
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No historian of Africa can be indifferent to the fact that alone in Africa south of the Sahara the East African coast possesses a link between history and archaeology in its own medieval mints and also in coins imported from other lands during the past two thousand years. Its history is poorly documented, and its archaeology is still to a great extent in the stage of record and survey; the numerous finds of Chinese porcelain and other imported ceramics can at present only be assigned within a bracket of at smallest fifty years: but in the coin finds there is a key for the future establishment of a precise chronology for all of these.

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The Journal of African History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1960 , pp. 31 - 43
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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