Asante gold-account reckoning
Asante gold-account reckoning: a historical unit of account.
- Dates in use
- Introduction and ending not established
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Where this money came from
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Earlier ancestry is not established here.
No successor is established here. This does not imply extinction.
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