Kepan

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Kepan , also Kepath , was an Arabic measure of weight. The measure Kestuf with a weight of 2 barley grains or Kirat with 24 Habbe (grains) is suitable as a cover .

  • 1 Kepan = about 0.026 grams (0.025875 grams)
  • 4 kepan = 1 kestuf
  • 8 kepan = 1 kirat = 4 grains = 0.207 grams
  • 12 Kepan = 1 Derhem / Drachma (Arabic)
  • 2 Kepan = 1 thanks / gran

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 16
  • Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 152
  • Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Flörke, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 36, Verlag Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1786, p. 835