The Money, Weights, and Measures of the Chief Commercial Nations in the World, with the British EquivalentsEdward Stanford, 1869 - 12 pages |
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12 Zoll 25 Francs 25 Lire 32 Loth 60 cents Anker Approximate English value BANK NOTES Bank value billon Britain British imperial bushels British imperial gallons British imperial quarters Buenos Ayres Candareen Centesimos Centimes Centner circulation coinage coins are pieces Cologne Mark copecks copper copper coins cubic Fuss currency Dalers denominations of money Dollar Doubloon Drachma dry goods.-The Eimer English acres English inches English miles English yards equal exchange feet Florins French value gold coins Grammes Groschen Guilder Gulden Irish Kannen Kilogramme Klafter Kreuzers Linien Liquids.-The litres Malter Maund MEASURES OF CAPACITY MEASURES OF LENGTH MEASURES OF SURFACE Meile mètre Metres Milreis money of account Morgen numbers Ounce Oxhoft Patacons Pence Pfund Piastre Pounds quarts Quentchen Reis Rigsdaler Rixdollar Rupee Ruthe Ruthen Scheffel Schilling Piece Seers Shillings Silber Groschen silver coins Spanish Dollar square Fuss square Ruthen Stubchen Systematic name Tael Thaler Viertel Weights and Measures worth
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Page 41 - In this country the standard of length is one yard, but a foot is the unit popularly adopted. In France it is the ten millionth part of the distance from the pole to the equator, measured along the earth's surface...
Page 2 - A term used in a relative sense to express the fineness of gold. It means the twenty-fourth part of any given weight of that metal, or of its alloy. If such a weight be pure gold, it is said to be 24 carats fine ; if threefourths only be gold, it is 18 carats fine.
Page 39 - Rod 40 Perches = 1 Rood 4 Roods = 1 Acre 640 Acres = 1 Sq. Mile 3.
Page 1 - PAR OF EXCHANGE is the value of the currency of one country estimated in the currency of another, by comparing the quantity of gold and silver in their respective coins.
Page 21 - ITHACA, AND PAXO.) As the Ionian Islands now belong to Greece, the Greek monetary system, no doubt, will soon be introduced in them ; but some time must elapse before the old system (of the period of British protection) disappears. While these islands were under British protection (1829 — 1864) accounts were kept by some persons in Dollars, of 100 Cents ; by others in Pounds, of 20 Shillings, of 12 Pence Ionian currency, and by others in Piastres, of 40 Paras. Ionian value.
Page 40 - Pound (lb.) 14 Pounds = 1 Stone 28 Pounds' = 1 Quarter (qr.) 4 Quarters (or 112 Ibs.) = 1 Hundred weight (cwt.) 20 Hundredweight = 1 Ton This weight is used in almost all commercial transactions. TROY WEIGHT.
Page 11 - Real = 4Jd. 12 Reals = 1 Dollar = 4s. 2d. 100 Cents = 1 Dollar = 4s. 2d.
Page 2 - Majesty in 1855, is made of an alloy consisting of 22 parts of pure gold and 2 parts of alloy, the alloy being an indefinite proportion of silver and copper. The standard for gold used by jewellers and goldsmiths (hence called jewellers...
Page 57 - A measure of land equal to as much as a yoke of oxen can plough in one day. 2 White's Recop. [38,] 49. 12 Peters