Oval

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Ovalo was a Spanish (Castilian) small unit of mass and a pharmacist and medicinal weight in Argentina that was subject to regional adjustment.

The dimensional chain was

  • 1 Libra = 12 Onzas = 96 Drachmas = 288 Escrupulos = 576 Ovalos = 6912 Granos = 344.5255 grams (¾ pounds of the commercial weight)

literature

  • Georg Thomas Flügel: Course slip continued as a manual for coin, measure, weight and Customs. Verlag Jaegerschen Buch-, Papier- und Landkartenhandlung, Frankfurt am Main 1859, p. 112.
  • For silver: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 288.