Wall (unit)

Wall , Voll , also Waal or Vall , was a measure of weight for gold and silver in East India, especially in the Presidency of Bombay .

• Bombay
  • 40 wall = 1 tola
  • 960 Wall = 1 Seyra = 6 Dutch As
• Bharuch
  • 22 walls = 1 tola
  • 1 wall = 8 4/5 Dutch aces
• New Delhi
  • 1 wall = 32 tolas = 7 4/7 Dutch aces
• Surat
  • 32 walls = 1 tola
  • 1 wall = 3 ruttees = 7 4/5 Dutch aces

The Dutch ace can be expected to be 0.048 grams .

See also

For the counting measure of the same name, see Wall

literature

• Jurende's Patriotic Pilgrim: Business and Entertainment Book. Volume 2, Winiker, Brünn 1834, p. 391.
• August Schiebe: Universal Lexicon of Commercial Sciences. Volume 3, Friedrich Fleischer / Gebrüder Schumann, Leipzig / Zwickau 1839, p. 542.