Felin (unit)

The Felin or Ferlin, also Fellin, was a French / Belgian weight measure for gold and silver . In older literature, the measure is referred to as the marrow weight (Poids de marc). Four of a kind or quarter coin was a common name. In Italian it was the Ferlino with 1/122 pounds.

France

10 felin = 1 gros = 3.91 grams

Belgium

The dimensional chain was

1 pound = 2 marks = 16 ounces = 320 Esterlin = 1280 Felins = 492.1518 grams
1 felin = 8 as
4 felins = 1 esterlin
2 maille = 1 feline

literature

Christian Nelkenbrecher : JC Nelkenbrecher's general pocket book of coin, measure and weight. Sanderschen Buchhandlung, Berlin 1828, p. 99

Individual evidence

↑ August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight . Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 488.
↑ Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The newest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 369.
↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger'schen book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 131.
↑ Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 445.

[1] August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight . Volume 3, Fleischer / Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 488.

[2] Jacob Heinrich Kaltschmidt : The newest and most complete foreign dictionary to explain all words and expressions borrowed from foreign languages. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1870, p. 369.

[3] Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger'schen book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 131.

[4] Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use. Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 445.