Pagoda (unit)

The pagoda was not only an Indian trade weight, but also a weight for gold , silver and diamonds . The pagoda was widely used in Asia as a gold and bill coin.

• Trade weight in Sumatra
  • 1 pagoda = 8 mas = 32 copangs = 4 4/5 grams
• Gold and silver weights on the Coromandel Coast and in Malabar ( Pondichery )
  • 1 pagoda = 3 4/17 grams
  • 1 Star Pagoda = 10 Touches = 3.4058 grams (in stores with London )
• Diamond weight in the East Indies
  • 1 pagoda = 16 7/11 carats

literature

• Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 223

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854. p. 315