Group of seven gold weights ·  Ghana, Akan · ID: 3036047

Description

brass, fishes in various forms and sizes, each of them provided with a number backside;
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.

The object Group of seven gold weights with the object ID 3036047 was last part of the auction 75th tribal art auction at November 30, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 306 achieved a sales price of EUR 500.

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