Coupé (unit)

The coupé , also: the coupé, was a grain measure and was - reliably used in the 18th and 19th centuries - in various Swiss regions such as the canton of Geneva and the canton of Friborg, as well as Turin and Savoy .

For Coupé, the terms bag and head were often equivalent, but also independent dimensions with interdependencies.

Canton of Geneva

• 1 coupe = 2 bichets = 4 large quarts = 16 small quarters = 3980 Parisian cubic inches = 0.52633 new Swiss painters = 78.05 liters
• 1 coupe = 2 bichets = 4 large quarts = 16 small quarters = 3915 Parisian cubic inches = 77.66 liters
• 1 coupe = 110 pounds of wheat (Geneva heavy weight)
• 1 coupe = 103 pounds of rye (Geneva heavy weight)

Canton of Friborg

• 1 coupé = 2 bichets / Mäß
• 4 coupe / head = 1 sack
• 12 coupé = 1 Mütt
• 1 coupe = 201 ¼ Parisian cubic inches = 4 liters

Savoy and Turin

• 1 coupe = 144 ⅞ Parisian cubic inches = 2 ⅞ liters
• 4 Coupé = 1 Quartieri
• 8 Coupé = 1 Emmini
• 40 Coupé = 1 Sacco

literature

• Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios ... , Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.
• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of coins, dimensions and weights of all countries in the world ... , Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean B. Juvigny, Adolph Gutbier: Textbook of commercial arithmetic. P. 401, Verlag Georg Franz, Munich 1847.
2. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit ... , Volume 3, p. 183, Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798.