Angel (unity)

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Engel was the name for the Dutch (formerly called Dutch) Troy weight .

  • 1 angel = 4 quadruplets = 8 troisquins = 16 deusquins = 32 aces = 1.53792682 grams
  • 1 troy pound / pond = 2 marks = 16 ounces / onces = 32 lot / lood / loode = 320 angels
  • 1 kilogram ≈ 2,032 Troy pounds / pond ≈ 650,226 Engels

The old Dutch Troy mark as gold , silver and coin weight was calculated with 246.0682912  grams and divided into 8 ounces or 160 angels or 640 quadruplets or 1280 Troisquins / Troyken or 2560 Deusquins / Deursken or 5120 As.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, pp. 83, 178
  • Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general: or a complete dictionary. Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, pp. 17, 32, 322, 736

Individual evidence

  1. Jurende's Moravian Wanderer: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially dedicated to all nature and fatherland friends, Volume 13. 1824. S. 67 in the Google book search.