Crown (unit of weight)

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The crown was a unit of weight in Germany and Switzerland .

Germany

The weight of the crown, called crown weight , was a unit of measurement for processed gold in Germany . The crown could be divided into halves, quarters, eighths, etc. The inserts thus contained weights of 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 128 crowns. Processed gold had to be 18 or 14 carat and stamped. Crown gold was 18 carats with an additional 6 carats of foreign metals. This was also called the rough pith . Later the crown gold was only stamped 14 carat. The mark was 69 ½ crowns.

Switzerland

The crown was a Swiss unit of mass and was used as a gold weight. A distinction was made between an old and a new measure. The measure could be divided into quarters and sixteenths, including sixty-fourths.

  • 1 crown (old) = 3.365535 grams
  • 100 grams = 29 71/100 crowns (old)

See also

For currency units called "krone" see krone (disambiguation) .

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854, p. 195
  • Georg Kaspar Chelius, Johann Friedrich Hauschild, Heinrich Christian Schumacher: Measure and weight book. Verlag Jägersche Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 18

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tables for comparing the previously used weights and measures of the Canton of Zurich with the New Swiss weights and measures. Orell, Füßli and Komp., Zurich 1837, p. 114