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sɔwa [Twi]

In the Kingdom of Ashanti and the Gold Coast Colony, a unit of mass used for gold. Christaller, writing in the 19ᵗʰ century, described it as a weight of gold equal in value to 1½ dollars or ackies, or 6 shillings 9 pence.

sɔwa-fa = half a sɔwa.

J. G. Christaller.
Dictionary of the Asante and Fante Language. 2nd edition, rev. & enlarged.
Basel: Printed for the Basel Evangelical Missionary Society, 1933.
Page 464.