Adarme

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Die (der) Adarme was a Spanish fine weight for gold and silver goods . The measure also applied in Spanish Latin America . A dimensional chain looked something like this:

  • 1 Libbra = 2 Marco = 16 Onca = 128 Ochava = 256 Adarme = 768 Tomine = 9216 Grano
  • 1 onca / ounce = 16 adarmes

Depending on the region, in

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1311.
  2. ^ Isaac Smith Homans (Jr.): A Cyclopedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation. Harper & Brothers, New York 1859, p. 1951.
  3. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 3.
  4. Erna Padelt, Hansgeorg Laporte: Units and sizes of the natural sciences. Fachbuchverlag, Leipzig 1967, p. 108.