Millar (unit)
Millar was a trade measure in Mexico and was limited to countable goods, especially vanilla pods and needles. In Misantla in the state of Veracruz , 50 pods were always tied into small packages or mazos . Here one calculated 20 mazos per millar.
- 1 millar = 1000 vanilla pods
- 1 millar = 1000 needles
The millar or meiler was used as a measure in Greece in the fig trade. Depending on the variety, the weight of the wreaths could vary with around 60 figs (wreath figs) per wreath and weigh 13 or 14 cantars.
- 1 Millar / Meiler = 1000 wreaths
- 1 millar = 1000 pounds (Venetian heavyweight) = 8 ½ cantar (1 K. = 44 oken) = 374 oken; 375 Oken (practice value)
literature
- Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, measure and weight book: the money, measure and exchange system, the courses, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and more important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 486.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Georg Heinrich Hassel, Johann Günther Friedrich Cannabich: Complete and most recent description of the earth from the kingdom of Mexico, Guatemala and the West Indies. 5th Department, Volume 3, Complete Volume 18, Verlag des geographischen Institut, Weimar 1824, p. 74.
- ^ Journal of the Austrian Lloyd's. Trieste 1836–1849, Volume VIII, number 16, p. 174.
- ↑ Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : General pocket book of coin, measure and weight, the exchange, money and fund courses, etc. Verlag Georg Reimer, Berlin 1871, p. 38.