Three goldweights ·  Ghana, Ashanti · ID: 3035586

Description

brass, et. al. in form of a grasshopper, 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.

The object Three goldweights with the object ID 3035586 was last part of the auction 74th tribal art auction at September 7, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house. The object with the lot number 183 achieved a sales price of EUR 450.

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