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Yes, you're right ! It is not a bead.

Coins can be strung up like beads. You can be sure that if a coin has been pierced
it served that function. Coins made with holes, however, have to be on a string
before you can say it was used as a bead. A tenth of a penny, British West Africa, 1952.

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