Container for gold dust ·  Ghana · ID: 3033293

Description

brass, dark patina, cylindrical form, decorated with punched ornaments, min. dam., slight traces of corrosion;
until the beginning of the last century gold dust was the most common currency of the country. At every buying or disposal the gold dust had to be weighted, for this purpose natural weights like seeds, shells or bones were used, as well as metal weights, nowadays called “gold weights”.