Gold weight
Merchants used these weights as a standard for weighing gold for trade and merchandise. This weight, made of copper alloy, is decorated with a simple geometric pattern.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 255/1997/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Currency
- Collection Area Region
- W
- Material
- copper alloy (cast)
- Common Name
- gold weight
- Simple Name
- weight
- Production County
- South Ghana
- Production Country
- Ghana
- Production Year Low
- 1400
- Production Year High
- 1900
