Shan (unit)

Schan , also San, was a Siamese measure of weight.

• 1 Schan = 16 2/3 Lot (Wiener = 17.5 grams) = 291.667 grams

literature

• Jurende's patriotic pilgrim: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: consecrated to all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially to all nature and fatherland friends. Volume 21, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 346