Troisquin

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Troisquin , or Troesken, was a Dutch measure of weight.

  • 1 Troisquin = 2 Deusquins = 4 As = 192.2408725 milligrams
  • 2 troisquins = 1 four of a kind
  • 8 Troisquins = 4 quadruplets = 1 angel
  • 160 troisquins = 20 angels = 1 ounce
  • 1280 Troisquin = 8 ounces = 1 Troymark (Dutch)

The old Dutch Troy mark as gold , silver and coin weight was calculated with 246.0682912  grams and divided into 8 ounces or 160 angels or 640 quadruplets or 1280 Troisquins / Troyken or 2560 Deusquins / Deursken or 5120 As.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Verlag von Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 354

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jurende's Moravian Wanderer: business and entertainment book for all provinces of the Austrian imperial state: all friends of culture from the teaching, military and nutritional class, especially dedicated to all nature and fatherland friends, Volume 13. 1824. P. 67 in the Google book search