Hali (unit)

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Hali , also Nali , was a unit of mass (measure of weight) and a commercial weight in various places around the Strait of Malacca and also in Queda .

  • 1 Hali = 16 Gantas = 30 pounds ( mark weight ) according to Krüger = 16 pounds (mark weight)
  • 15 Hali = 1 Bahar = 450 pounds (mark weight)
    • 1 gantas / guantas = 4 guppas = 1 15/16 = 1.9375 pounds mark weight

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measurements, and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, pp. 122, 105.
  • Johann Heinrich Ludwig Bergius: Policey and Cameral magazine in alphabetical order. Volume 6, Andreean Buchhandlung, Frankfurt / Main 1771, p. 288.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger, p. 122.