Category:Bandea nyo (gold weight)

The Bandea nyo (a) is a historical gold weight of the Akan in Ghana and the Ivory Coast for the weighting of gold dust.

Regional name variants:

• Bandea nwio
• Bandea mwa
• Bandea nyo (b), Bandya nyo
• Bandya-Nyon
• Esiabo mienu, Esiabuo mienu
• Osua ne nsano
• Ba ndea

Literally means "Bandea nyo" (or in similar spellings): "Double-Bandea".

Theoretical weight:

- 23,4 g (Garrard)

- 24,0 g (Binger)

- 24.573 g (Abel)

Real weight:

- 22.4 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.026 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Scorpion figure)

- 22.5 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.019 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Scorpion figure)

- 22.5 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.061 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figurative reef knot)

- 23.3 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.155 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a combed bird without pedestal)

- 23.4 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.153 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a bird without pedestal)

- 23.6 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.115 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of two birds eating in a bowl)

- 23.6 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.144 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a bird on rectangular pedestal)

- 23.7 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.167 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a combed bird on a pedestal)

- 23.8 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.131 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of two headed bird with knot on a four steps pyramidal base)

- 24.3 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.160 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a combed bird on a rectangular tiered pedestal)

Value equivalents:

1 Bandea nyo = 90 Taku (Garrard)

1 Bandea nyo = 160 Ba (Abel)

(72 Taku = 108 Ba = 8,0 Ackies) (Abel)