Kip (unit in Malacca)

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The kip was a unit of weight for tin in Malacca (in today's Malaysia) on the peninsula of the same name that was formerly under British sovereignty.

  • 1 kip = 15 bedoors = 30 tampangs = 18.453 kilograms
  • 1 bahar = 8 kips = 147.65 kilograms

literature

  • Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight and the exchange, state paper, banking and stock system of European and non-European countries and cities , p. 277, published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863
  • Association of practical merchants: The latest illustrated trade and goods lexicon or encyclopedia of the entire trade sciences for merchants and manufacturers , Volume 1, p. 717, Verlag Ernst Schäfer, Leipzig 1857