Viscount weight

The Vicomte weight (French: Poids de Vicomté), in the literature Vicomtey weight , was a French weight used in Rouen . It differed from the commercial weight in its slightly larger pound weight. It was ½ an ounce and 6/25 heavier than the mark weight .

• 1 Viscount weight = 10,800 As (Dutch = 0.048 grams) = 518.4 grams (after 10,592 As = 509.086 grams)

The comparison:

• 1 quintal = 100 pound viscount weight = 104 pound mark weight = 108 pound mark weight for wool (after 11,009.4 As = 528.666 grams)

The iron or lead weights were graduated in 104; 52; 16 and 13 pounds. They limited the range of use of the viscount weight down to 13 pounds. Less than 13 pounds everything went according to the mark weight.

literature

• Carl Günther Ludovici: Opened academy of the merchants: or complete merchant lexicon: From which all actions and trades, with all their advantages, and the way of doing them can be learned. Volume 5, Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, Leipzig 1756, p. 445.
• Johann Georg Krünitz, Friedrich Jakob Floerken, Heinrich Gustav Flörke, Johann Wilhelm David Korth, Carl Otto Hoffmann, Ludwig Kossarski: Economic Encyclopedia . Volume 220, Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1854, p. 246.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Christian Noback, Friedrich Eduard Noback: Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight ratios, the government papers, the exchange and banking system and the customs of all countries and trading places. Volume 2, FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, p. 1059.