Gold weight
Merchants used these copper alloy weights, or mbrammuo, as a standard for weighing out gold and gold dust when trading. While the weights of the objects were standardised, their shape could be simple or complex. Some, such as this one, were cast with in a decorative, geometric pattern.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 68/1994/193
- 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