Gold plated brass "nugget" from one of the lost wax casting workshops near Kumasi in Ghana. I bought these in the early 1970s for fun, but never got around to using them. I'm pretty sure they were made for the tourist trade, because unlike in California gold rush days, gold in Ghana was traded primarily as dust, not nuggets.
I'm not sure if like the beads, the nuggets were first made in wax, then cast, then plated or whether they were just leftover lumps of brass and someone decided to gold wash and sell them See also AFE-1261, AFE-1262 and AFE-1263
Ghana was formerly known as the Gold Coast and traded gold throughout Africa and with Europeans, but always in the form of gold dust. There is a whole culture and lore around gold weights, their symbols and stories.
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