Capin (unit)
With Capin one was Zinnmünze and a ground unit on the peninsula Malacca referred. In Tocopa, for example, the coin was used as a weight. The kegligen tin pieces were also Poots called. A vis was calculated with 4 poots.
- 1 puga ≈ 224.87 grams or 229.3 grams
- 1 Poot = 3 Pugas
- 1 vis = 12 pugas
- 1 chattak = 64 pugas
- 1 Seer = 68 4 ⁄ 7 Pugas
- 1 capin = 10 vis = 40 poot = 120 pugas ≈ 27 kilograms
- 1 Mound = 2 1 ⁄ 3 Seer = 2 1 ⁄ 2 Chattak = 160 Pugas
- 1 Bahar = 6 Mound = 8 Capin = 14 Seer = 15 Chattak = 80 Vis = 320 Poot = 960 Pugas ≈ 215.876 kilograms (according to Johann H. Bock the value is 220.125 kilograms)
literature
- Georg Thomas Flügel, Francis Joseph Grund: The merchant's assistant, or, Merchantile instructer: containing a full account of the moneys, coins, weights and measures of the principal trading nations and their colonies, together with their values in United States currency, weights and measures. Hilliard, Gray & Co., Boston 1834, p. 134.
- Johann Michael Leuchs: The Contorwissenschaft. Part: The instruction to calculate with insight all incidents in trade, in common and high business. The latest in money, coin, mass and weight customers for merchants, businessmen and newspaper readers. Volume 3, Verlag E. Leuchs and Comp. (Contors of the Allg. Handlungs-Zeitung), Nuremberg 1834, p. 199.