Griwenka
The Griwenka , diminutive hryvnia ( Russian гривна ), was a Russian measure of weight that has its roots in the time of the Russian ruler Oleg and I. Igor would be. The hryvnia was a unit of coins (coin grivna) based on silver, which, similar to the Cologne mark, was used as a trade hryvnia, i.e. as a weight. This little hryvnia corresponded to z. B. in 1607 half a pound. The term pound for this measure has been regulated by law since 1653 .
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literature
- Johann Benedikt Scherer, Karl Hammerdörfer: History and current state of Russian trade. (from the French) Weygandschen Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1789, p. 173.
- Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon. Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 109.
- Magnus Georg Paucker: Contents overview of the work on measure, weight and coin of the Russian Empire and its German Baltic countries. Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1832, p. 13.
- Entry "ГРИВЕНКА" in the Словарь нумизмата (Numismatics Dictionary)