Category:Tasuanu (gold weight)

The Tasuanu is a historical gold weight of the Akan in Ghana and the Ivory Coast for the weighing of gold dust.

Regional name variants:

• Pereguan asuanu
• Nda nyo, Nda nwio
• Ndalae nyo

The name "Tasuanu" means "1 Ta + 1 Suanu" or "1 Ta + 4 * 1 Sua". The Suffix "-nu" means the fourfold of something.

Theoretical weight:

- 106 g (Garrard)

- 105.7 g (Garrard) (= 70,4 g + 4 x 8,8 g)

Real weight:

- 104.1 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.085 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass figure of the anterior half of an elephant)

- 107,0 g (Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.041 in the "Muséum de Toulouse") (Brass figure of a big bird with six little birds drinking)

Value equivalents:

1 Tasuanu = 306 Taku (Garrard)

1 Tasuanu = 480 Taku (Abel)

480 Taku = 80 Ackies (Abel)

(1 Ounce = 16 Ackies (European trade))