Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. measuring device components
7. scale components
8. weights (scale components)

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by general context
6. counterweights

Anotations

Scope note:

Objects with the same weight, and sometimes design, as specific coins in general circulation and usually of brass or other base metal, rarely of glass, created to insure proper metallic content and weight; known in antiquity, but used especially from the 4th century CE to around 1800.