Sazo

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The Sazo , also Saffo , was an Italian measure of weight in Venice and Ragusa .

  • 1 oncia = 6 sazi
  • 1 peso = 12 sazi

A distinction was made between light (Peso sottile) and heavy pounds (Gran Peso).

  • Peso sottile 1 sazo = 24 carati = 4 1/6 grams
  • Gran peso 1 sazo = 32 carati = 128 grani = 6 7/11 grams

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. 292.
  • Pierer 's Universal Lexicon. Volume 15. Altenburg 1862, p. 31.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Schiebe : Universal Lexikon der Handelswissenschaften : containing: the coin, measure and weight, Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer Leipzig and the Schumann Brothers Zwickau 1839, p. 136.