Asante gold-account reckoning
Asante gold-account reckoning: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
- Ancestry branch
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Its place in the family
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Earlier ancestry is not established here.
Asante gold-account reckoning
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No successor is established here.
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Asante gold-account reckoning
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
The story
Central peredwan unit and fractional scale used alongside smaller damba, taku, domafo, doma values; small values enter court fines and fee distribution. Metrological relationships to other standards do not establish parentage. [1]
Lifecycle review: unresolved No complete family extinction established. [2]
Sources and evidence
- Kwame Arhin · Kwame Arhin, Gold-mining and trading among the Ashanti of Ghana, Journal des Africanistes48(1),1978, pp.89–100 C1356 ↗
- Kwame Arhin · Kwame Arhin, Gold-mining and trading among the Ashanti of Ghana, Journal des Africanistes48(1),1978, pp.89–100 C1726 ↗
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“Asante gold-account reckoning.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-ASANTE-PEREDWAN.html