Tomine (unit)

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The Tomine , also Tomina, was a Spanish fine weight for gold and silver goods.

  • 1 tomine = 1/28 lot (Prussia = 16.667 grams) = 0.5953 grams
  • 1 tomine (older) = 1/29 lot (Prussia) = 0.5747 grams
  • 1 tomine = 12 granos corresponds to 3/5 liters
  • 3 tomines = 1 adarms
  • 6 tomine = 1 ochava
  • 48 tomine = 1 onca
  • 384 tomine = 1 Castilian mark

Were in the Spanish mines in America

  • 6 tomine = 1 castillan

The castillan was the 100th part of the Spanish pound.

  • 6 Castillans plus 2 Tomine = 1 Unca

literature

  • August Schiebe : Universal encyclopedia of commercial science: containing: coin, measure and weight. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer, Leipzig and the Schumann brothers, Zwickau 1839, p. 318.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Fr. Silber: The coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world individually calculated according to their values ​​and proportions to all German coins, measures and weights. In addition to information on the trading venues and their billing relationships. Moritz Ruhl, Leipzig 1861, p. 433.
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 347.
  3. ↑ Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopaedic merchant lexicon of everything worth knowing and non-profit in the broad areas of commercial science and commerce in general. Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 388.