Pehtha

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The Pehtha , also Paitha, Pehktha or Palktba, was a Burmese trade, gold and silver weight. In English the measure Wiß / Wiss or Viß / Viss was called.

  • 1 pehtha = 100 keiats / kyats / ticals = 1.6556 kilograms
  • 1 Keiat = 4 matches = 8 Mjuhs = 16 Behs (Bais) = 64 large Rwehs = 128 small Rwehs = 16.556 grams

The small Rweh was the grain of Arbrus peccatorius and the large Rweh the bean of Andebanthera pavonina was another graduation

  • 1 pehtha = 4 agitos / giros = 8 abuccos

As a grain measure (all types of grain, legumes , baking soda , salt and building lime ) were

  • 1 basket / basket / ten = 16 pehthas = 26.49 kilograms (husked rice )

The other goods (solid or liquid) were bought and sold by weight.

See also

literature

  • Brockhaus : Small conversation lexicon. fifth edition, Volume 2, Leipzig 1911, p. 370.
  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Noback : Coin, Measure and Weight Book : Money, Measure and Exchange, the courses, government papers, banks, trading establishments and customs of all countries and important places. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1858, p. 613. ( online )
  • Johann Christian Nelkenbrecher : General pocket book of coin, measure and weight, exchange, money and fund courses. Georg Reimer Publishing House, Berlin 1871, p. 443.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1862, p. 416