[3] "For money they use bronze or gold coins, or iron bars of fixed weights."
— Julius Caesar, 54 BC[1]Iron hoes circulated as money in India, Africa, and Indochina, and were the smallest monetary unit of the Bahnar people.
The western Uganda Chiga used hoes as their unit of account without using of them as a medium of exchange or store of value.
In 1824, 394 currency bars were found, 1.2m below the surface, at a re-used camp on Meon Hill,[4][5] Mickleton, Gloucestershire.
[8][9] In 1942, Iron currency bars were found around Llyn Cerrig Bach and the surrounding peat bog in Wales.