gold weights Mrammou - Akan Ashanti - Ghana (No reserve price)

Thirty pieces of antique geometric gold weights, various abstract geometric shapes and patterns. Made with the lost wax method, cire perdue. Sometimes with visible remnants of the casting channel. Different colors of African bronze. Wear and signs of use in accordance with tribal use in weighing gold and gold dust, and in trading. With weight reduction, and also with lead ballast. Evidence that these weights were tribally well used in trade. Weights from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, thus well before 1900, when the use of gold weights as currency and a means of payment was banned and replaced by coinage. total weight 275 grams registered tracktrace shipping.

Estimate:£126.76

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