Gold weight
Merchants used these weights as a standard for weighing gold. The weights were made using the ‘lost wax technique’. While the weight of the objects were standardised, their shape varied. Some weights were cast to look like objects from nature, and have a proverbial significance.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/192
- 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