Category:Benda (gold weight)

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

Regional name variants:

- Benda (a) + (b)

- Benna; Bennaa (a)

- Banna (a) + (b)

- Bende

- Asuasa ne suru

Theoretical weight:

- 62,2 g Au (Garrard for Fante, Christaller for Akim)

- 56,064 g Au (Abel for the Ivory Coast)

- 64.00 g Au (Binger for the Ivory Coast)

- ca. 65 g (Bürki for Akim)

Equivalents of value:

1 Benda = 256 Taku (16 x 16) = 384 Ba (24 x 16) (Abel for the Ivory Coast)

(1 Benda = 13 Mitkal) (Dupuis for Transsahara trade)

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

Real weight pieces:

- 55.5 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.111 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a bird)

- 56.3 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.067 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a porcupine)

- 56.8 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.174 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Half circular weight with indented edges)

- 60.9 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.080 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of a porcupine)

- 61.6 g Inventory number MHNT.ETH.2010.25.084 in the "Muséum de Toulouse" (Figure of an elephant with a bird on its trunk)