Category:Sua ne suru (gold weight)

The Sua ne suru is a historical gold weight of the Akan in Ghana and the Ivory Coast.
Name variants:

• Osua ne suru
• Esua ne suru
• Anlu nwio
• Anlu nyo
• Anui nyo
• Anrui nyo
• Anrui mwa
• Bandya-Nyon
• Gua nyo, Gua-Nyon

The name means literally: "1 Sua and 1 Suru" (also "1½ Sua" or similarly).

Theoretical weight:

- 24,528 g Au (Abel for Bandya-Nyon)

- 26,4 g Au (Garrard) (= 17,6 g (1 Sua) + 8,8 g (1 Suru))

- 28,908 g Au (Abel for Gua-Nyon)

Real weight:

- 25,3 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.077 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass antelope figure)

- 25,3 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.132 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass bird figure)

- 25,6 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.054 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass figure of an Oware board game on a rectangular two-stage pedestal)

- 25,7 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.070 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass turtle figure)

- 26,0 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.022 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass scorpion figure)

- 26,8 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.023 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass scorpion figure)

- 27,9 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.021 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass scorpion figure)

- 28,0 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.139 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass bird (rooster) figure)

- 28,3 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.093 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass figure of a curled snakelike fish) (= 130 Taku piece...?)

- 28,7 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.130 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass figure of a waderbird with fish in its mouth on a three steps pyramidal base)

- 28,7 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.014 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass scorpion figure)

Value equivalents:

1 Sua ne suru = 100 Taku (Garrard)

1 Banda-Nyon = 112 Taku = 168,0 Ba (Abel)

1 Gua-Nyon = 132 Taku = 198 Ba (Abel)

(1 Ounce = 16 Ackies = 144 Taku = 216 Ba (Abel))