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Hearst Museum object titled Gold weights, lock, accession number 5-10533, described as Goldweight, brass lost wax cast; lock, 7.48 gm. weight called manfisuru. The everyday businessman's weight for the amount of gold dust used as money in much of West Africa from the 1400s through the 1800s.