Marco (unit)

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The Marco , the Mark, was a gold and silver weight. As a jewel and coin weight, it was half the size of the Libbra. It was widespread primarily in Spain , Portugal , Italy and South America .

Marco was gold and silver weight in Venice too . In Milan it weighed 234.99733 grams. Before the introduction of the French coin standard, it was a coin weight. Then only weight measurement. For example, according to the coinage law of 1848 in Madrid, 175 reals were equal to a Marco weighing 230.071 grams .

Italy

The marco was also a unit of weight in Sardinia . It was also used here as a gold and silver weight, but also as a so-called trial weight and as a commercial weight. It was the coin weight for Sardinia until the introduction of the modern French system.

  • 1 Marco = 8 Once = 64 Ottavi = 192 Denari
  • 1 denari = 24 grani = 298 granotti
  • 1 Marco = 245.89634 grams (commercial weight )

Portugal

In Portugal the coin mark was marked Marco and weighed 229.48 grams. In Lisbon, the measure differed in the decimal places and was 229.25 grams. The Portuguese dimensional chain was

  • 1 Marco = 8 Onzas = 64 Oitavas = 192 Escrupelos = 4608 Granos

Spain

The Spanish dimensional chain was

  • 1 Marco = 8 Once = 32 Quarti = 192 Denari = 1152 Carati = 4608 Grani
  • 1 Marco = 238.4994 grams

As a Catalan Marco he weighed 267 ⅓ grams, which was 1.131 times that of the Castilian Marco. The former had as a dimensional chain

The latter had as a dimensional chain (until 1731)

  • 1 Marco = 50 Castellanos = 400 Tomines = 4800 Granos, whereby the Castellano was calculated with 4.60135 grams.

In Aragon with Saragossa was the dimensional chain

  • 1 Marco = 8 Onzas = 32 Cuarto = 128 Ardames = 4096 Granos

Overseas

In Argentina it was 229.684 grams. That was 1/50 of the larger measure of Castellano. As the normal Marco of coins in Mexico, it weighed 230.0466 grams and was lighter than the Castilian one with 230.0675 grams.

literature

  • Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1862.
  • JM Dold: Ratios of the coins, dimensions, etc. Weights of all countries to the new Swiss. J. Weilenmann, Uster 1853, p. 37.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leopold Carl Bleibtreu : Handbook of coin, measure and weight, and the bill of exchange, government paper, banking and shares in European and non-European countries and cities. Published by J. Engelhorn, Stuttgart 1863, p. 258.
  2. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Teubner Publishing House, Leipzig 1855, p. 181.