Silver Maria Theresa dollar, also known as 'Gurs'. [CAR 03/09/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Silver Maria Theresa dollar, also known as 'Gurs'. [CAR 03/09/2008]
Geographical reference: Chad
Africa > Central Africa > Chad
Person: Field collector A. Robert Hottot; PRM source A. Robert Hottot
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1932
Date collected: By 1932
Acquisition information: Donated: 1932
Materials and processes: Material Silver Metal, Process Struck, Process Cast
Dimensions: Diameter: max 37 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1932.57.9
Research and responses: See Philip N. Grover and Christopher Morton, 'Hottot Collection', Congo Journey: Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot's Expedition to Central Africa, 1908-9 [website], (published online 12 January 2006) http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/congojourney/robert-hottot-expedition-mission-collection-resources-bibliography.htm.
According to “African ethnonyms: index to art-producing peoples of Africa” by Daniel P. Biebuyck, Susan Kelliher and Linda McRae (G.K. Hall & Co.: New York, 1996), Bagirmi was the name of an ancient kingdom, which existed from the 16th century to 1915, in the Central African Republic, Chad and the Sudan. Lake Chad is in Niger, Chad, Nigeria and Cameroon. Chad may thus be proposed as a possible provenance. [CW 24/2/2000]

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