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Esterlin

The esterlin is an obsolete French unit of mass weighing about 1.5138 gram. It was used as a unit of mass for gold in France weighing 28 ½ Grain. In the Austrian Netherlands its place in the unit-chain was1 livre or pond/pound = 2 mark = 16 once = 320 esterlin = 1280 felins = 10240 aß = 1 pond troy of Holland 1 pond = 320 esterlin = 49.215,18 centigram

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The esterlin is an obsolete French unit of mass weighing about 1.5138 gram. It was used as a unit of mass for gold in France weighing 28 ½ Grain.1 In the Austrian Netherlands its place in the unit-chain was

  • 1 livre or pond/pound = 2 mark = 16 once = 320 esterlin = 1280 felins = 10240 aß = 1 pond troy of Holland2
  • 1 pond = 320 esterlin = 49.215,18 centigram3

In Belgium, it was valid that 1 livre = 1000 esterlin = 1000 gram4

References

References

  1. Kaltschmidt, Jacob Heinrich (1870). Neuestes und vollständigstes Fremdwörterbuch zur Erklärung aller aus fremden Sprachen entlehnten Wörter und Ausdrücke.
  2. Homans, Isaac Smith Jr. (1859). "A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation, with maps and engravings".
  3. Chelius, Georg Kaspar (1830). Maß- und Gewichtsbuch.
  4. Mendelssohn, M. (1859). "Handbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtskunde unter Berücksichtigung des neuen Münz- und Gewichts-Systems, mit ausführlichen Reduktions-Tabellen".
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