Periot

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Periot was an English unit of weight that referred to the Troy pound with a mass of 373.1501 grams . It was a gold and silver weight in the function of the Cologne mark . The connecting unit was the Grän with 2880 parts on the London Troy pound (1 Troy pound = 12 ounces = 120 Pfennigs = 2880 Grän = 57,600 Mites = 1,382,400 Droit = ​​33,177,600 Periot = 796,262,400 blanks).

  • 1 Periot = 24 blanks = around 0.1296 grams
  • 24 periot = 1 droit

literature

  • Anton Benedikt Reichenbach: Newest orbis pictus; or, The visible world in pictures: a universal picture book. Volume 1, Baumgärtners Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1851, p. 816