Castellano (unit)

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The Castellano was a gold and silver weight in Spain . He was the 50th part of Marco .

As a Spanish gold coin, it was worth 3 1/5 thalers .

The dimensional chain as a measure of weight was

  • 1 Castellano = 8 Tomines = 24 carats / Quilates = 96 Granos
  • 1 Castellano = 4.60135 grams (Chilean value)

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios Volumes 1 and 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The latest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 157.