Put (unit)
Put or Poor , also poot, was a coin made of tin and at the same time a measure of weight on the island of Salanga ( Junk Ceylon ) in back India .
- 1 put = 688 grams
The dimensional chain was
literature
- August Schiebe : Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 2, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1838, p. 655.
- Friedrich Erdmann Petri: Concise manual of foreign words in German written and colloquial language, to understand and avoid those, more or less dispensable interference. Arnoldische Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1852, p. 689.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann H. Bock: General pocket book of coin, measure and weight for bankers and merchants. Sandersche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1832, p. 383.