Carato

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The carato was an Italian measure of weight and corresponded to the measure of carat .

The jewel weight was different from the gold and silver weight. A division was made into halves, quarters, eighths and sixteenths. In Genoa, for example, 8 Ottavas were equal to 1 Carato.

Gold and silver weight

  • 1 carato = 4 grani = 48 sedicesimi / sixteenths
  • 1 carato = 0.205615 grams
  • 130 carati = 1 oncia

Jewel weight

  • 1 carato = 0.196494 grams

literature

  • M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measurement and weight studies, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 358.
  2. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 183.