Beak

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The beak , also the bihk , was a weight for gold and silver or the light weight in mocha .

1 Beak = 1.5 Wakaias / Vakias / Vakeas / Wakeas ( ounces ) = 15 Caflas / Koffalas / Coffalas / Koffilas = 240 carats = 46.523 grams
1 vakia = 31.0153 grams

literature

Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : coin, measure and weight book. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 488.
August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 2, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1838, p. 415.