Gantan

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Gantan (also Ganton or Gantang ) was an Indonesian measure of volume and weight. It was widespread on the Prince of Wales Island , Singapore , Java and Sumatra . In Java, especially in the pepper trade , and Sumatra it was also a measure of weight. There were deviations in Malacca , Borneo and Sumatra.

An exception was the measure as a piece measure. On the island of Maguindanao , a gantan had 25 pieces of coarse canvas measuring 19 inches wide by 6 yards long. 1 gantan was also equivalent to 10 Spanish piasters .

  • 1 coyang = 800 gantans

Volume measure

Prince of Wales Island and Sumatra 1 Gantan = 4.732 liters

Weight measure

  • 1 gantan = 286 1/5 Parisian cubic inches = 2.9 inch pounds = 5 ⅔ liters

In Palembang the measure was equal to 7.59 inch pounds

On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi with the capital Makassar of the province of South Sulawesi , there were two different gantan sizes. Once as a measure of rice as used by the residents there

and the other measure in accordance with Dutch customs. In the Dutch company based there at the time

  • 1 gantan = 5.6599 kilograms

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 105.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading venues. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 630.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Adolph Jahn : Dictionary of applied mathematics: a manual for use . Volume 1, Reichenbach'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1855, p. 489.
  2. ↑ Georg Thomas Flügel: Course slip continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Publisher LF Huber Verlag der Jäger'schen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 176.
  3. ↑ Gottlob Heinrich Heinse: Encyclopedic dictionary or alphabetical explanation of all words from foreign languages ​​that are accepted in German. Volume 10, Wilhelm Wedel, Zeitz / Naumburg 1803, p. 94.