Harsela

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The harsela was a measure of weight for silk in Egypt , Asia Minor , Turkey and Greece .

comparison

Krünitz wrote in the Economic Encyclopedia of 1858 that with Harsela "the silk had been weighed at Cairo in Egypt" . " Such a Harsela has 400 drams, and weighs 2 pounds 15 loth in Hamburg" . Johann Friedrich Krüger calculated even more precisely in his book Complete Handbook of Coins, Measures and Weights of All Countries in the World. this unit around. A harsela is 26,560 Dutch aces or 1,276 8/21 grams or 2 pounds 23 ¼ Prussian loth or 2 pounds 9 loth Viennese weight.

  • 1 Harsela (Oka) = 400 drachms / drams = 1276.143 g

literature

  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course list 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. 81

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Hars%C4%95la
  2. ^ Association of practical merchants: General commercial lexicon or encyclopedia of all commercial sciences. Volume 1, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857, p. 615
  3. ↑ http://www.kruenitz1.uni-trier.de/xxx/h/kh01348.htm
  4. ^ Verlag G. Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, page 123