Akan gold weight from the Metropolitan Museum of Art

A brass weight smaller than a matchbook ran an entire economy. Akan traders measured gold dust with these. The geometric patterns encode proverbs. Hundreds at the Met's Rockefeller Wing. 🏛️

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