Goldweight · Ghana, Akan · ID: 3033153
sold
EUR 800
Provenance
Lempertz Cologne, 1969Size
L: 4,5 cm
L: 1.8 inch
Description
brass with patina, in form of a beetle, min. dam.;
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.