Esterlin

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The Esterlin was a Dutch measure of weight and stood for grams . In France it was a gold measure and was 28 ½ grains in weight. The position of measure in the Dutch dimensional chain was

  • 1 Livre or Pond / Pound = 2 Marks = 16 Once = 320 Esterlin = 1280 Felins = 10240 Aß = 1 Pond Troy of Holland
  • 1 pound = 320 esterlin = 49,215.18 centigrams

In Belgium 1 livre = 1000 Esterlin = 1000 grams

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. 346.
  2. Isaac Smith Homans Jr .: A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation, with maps and engravings. Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York 1859, p. 1047.
  3. Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger'schen book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 130.
  4. M. Mendelssohn: Handbook of coin, measure and weight, taking into account the new coin and weight system, with detailed reduction tables. Horvarth'sche Buchhandlung, Potsdam 1859, p. 186.