Seer (unit)
The Seer , also Seira , Seyra , Ser , Ceer , Keer or Kair , was a mass unit in East India. The commercial weight was also used for weighing liquids. The amount varied in the regions. Under the similar name Seyra , Saira or Seir, it was a measure of weight in India on the Coromandel Coast , Pondichery and on the island of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf for gold and silver goods.
Equal dimensional relationships were in Calcutta , Madras , Surat (in the Bombay presidency ) and Bombay in terms of trade weight for these
The deviations were
- Calcutta 1 Seer = 2 ½ Paloin
- Calcutta liquids 1 Seer = 4 Pice = 16 Chattak = 273 1/5 grams
- Madras 1 Seer = 283 ½ liters
- Madras 5 Seer = 1 Bis / Vis
- Surat 1 Seer = 423 4/5 liters (424.5605 grams)
- Surat cotton 840 Seer = 1 candil
In Bombay there were two options, especially in the grain trade, as the measure for rice was calculated separately.
- Bombay 1 Seer = 2 Tipres / Tipprees
- Bombay either 4 Seer = 1 Adowlie or 7½ Seer = 1 Adowlie
- Bombay either 8 Seer = 1 Parah or 150 Seer = 1 Parah
- Bombay either 64 seers = 1 candy or 600 seers = 1 candy
- Bombay 2400 Seer = 1 Morah
- Bombay commercial weight 1 Seer = 30 pices = 317 7/13 grams
- Pondichery 1 Seer = 271.94 grams
- 1 Polon = ⅛ Seer / Serre = 33.99 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. 311.
- Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. J. Hölscher publishing house, Koblenz 1854.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Eduard Döring: Handbook of coin, exchange, measure and weight. Verlag J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1854, pp. 409, 463.
- ↑ Helmut Kahnt, Bernd Knorr: Old measures, coins and weights: a lexicon . Licensed edition of the Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1986, ISBN 3-411-02148-9 , p. 230, 280 .