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Deals including 100 pieces of fish (6)

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I believe the answer is:

scales

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'pieces of fish' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both man-made objects as well as being plural nouns.
I also know that 'fish' relates to this answer.

'deals including 100' is the wordplay.
'deals' becomes 'sales' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'including' is an insertion indicator.
's00' becomes 'C' (Roman numeral).
'sales' going around 'c' is 'SCALES'.

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(Other definitions for scales that I've seen before include "Weighing devices, sign of Libra" , "Set of musical notes - balanced on a fish?" , "Removes plaque" , "Fish flakes or weighing instruments" , "Graduated sequence of musical notes" .)

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