France, 1885

1884: 1 Troy Oz. Pt (Paris: Col. Ore, .999) = Fr 34.14 (USD$ 6.60)
1884: 1 Troy Ounce Platinum (Paris: Mkt) = Fr 37.3242 (USD$ 7.215)
1884: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (Paris: Mfg, Retail) = Fr 46.655 (USD$ 9.02) 


The price for imported English-manufactured Platinum: Fr 1,405/Kg.


Oertling's Weights (Presumed Total: 138 g. ~ 4.437 Ozt:

1885: 1 Ozt. Platinum (UK: Mfg; Imp.; Tariff Fr.0.69) = Fr. 43.69 (USD$ 10.04)
1885: 1 Ozt. Platinum (UK: London Mfg) ~£ 1.70 (Fr. 43.) 
1885: 1 Ozt. Platinum (Mfg* 2nd Class) = £ 1.35 (Fr 34.15)
 
Very Unlikely: Oertling's Weights (Total ? 46.003 g. ~ 1.479 Ozt)
1885: 1 Troy Oz. Platinum (UK: Mfg, Imported & Tariffed?) = Fr. 131.07

Colombia, 1854

According to an American visitor, by 1854 the Gold Yield had collapsed -75% from years prior to 1852. 

Citation: New Granada: Twenty Months in the Andes: With Maps and Illustrations;  Isaac F. Holton (1856) p.260



The issue of contraband export dogged estimates well in the 1850s.  Assuming the Franc/Piastre exchange at 5:1 and the Colombian Fine-Gold Price at S$ 17.61 per English Ounce Troy, a rather unlikely massive export of 7,949 kg of Gold occurred circa 1854.  

Likewise, the amount of Colombian platina exported (S$ 30,000 or 188.71 kgs) was barely 2.35% the Gold total but probably much closer to the true export amount.

Citation: Dictionnaire universel théorique et practique du commerce et de la navigation ;  Gilbert-Urbain Guillaumin (1859) p. 546


As reported in 1857 (somewhat dated?) Colombia was annually exporting 600 kilograms or ~ 19,290 ozt platina.

 

1854 Exchange



Colombian Weights:

  
c.1854-6? Export Cost of Gold 'Antioquia to Barranquilla'  S$ per Kg.





c.1854-6? Export Cost 'Antioquia to Barranquilla' S$ 15.80 per carga (~115.0 Kg.) or S$ 0.1374 per Kg.



c.1854-6? Import Cost 'Barranquilla to Antioquia' S$ 18.80 per carga (~115.0 Kg.) or S$ 0.1634 per Kg ; machinery to mines, S$ 22. per carga (~115.0 Kg.) or S$ 0.1912 per Kg

Austria: Weights

Using Tillet, by the Gold/Silver Prag Mark (Old Weight), 1 Prag-Loth Ag/Au = 332.6875 Holland Aas (= 15.98474, 15.98955 Gr) ; 1 Wien-Loth Ag/Au = 364.8219 Holland Aas (= 17.5287 Gr)  

Where 10,000 Holland Aas = 7,416.967773 English Troy Grains (~7,416.97)


Berlin: 1 Mark Cöllnische = 8 Unzen = 16 Loth, ∴ 
1 Unze = 0.9395 Ozt.; 29.2212 g.
1 Loth = 0.4697 Ozt.; 14.6106 g.
(Heavier) 1 Mark Cöllnische = 8 Unzen = 16 Loth, ∴ 1 Unze = 0.94 Ozt.; 1 Loth = 0.47 Ozt.;
Louis d'Or = 0.2145 Ozt.; 6.67089 g.  .........  Ducat = 0.1120 Ozt. ; 3.48443 g.

Citation: Leipziger Handwörterbuch der Handlungs-, Comptoir- und Waarenkunde &c., Vol. 2 (1818) p.213: 

  
1 Mark Prag = 8 Unzen = 16 Loth, ∴ 1 Unze = 1.0281 Ozt.; 31.9787 g.
1 Loth = 0.5141 Ozt.; 15.9893 g.

p.215:


1 Mark Wien = 8 Unzen = 16 Loth, ∴ 1 Unze = 1.2745 Ozt.; 35.0676 g.
1 Loth = 0.5637 Ozt.; 17.5337 g. p.215:



1821:
1 Böhm. Loth (Commercial) = 0.516769506 Ozt.; 16.07332813 Grammes
1 Böhm. Unze (Commercial) = 1.033539013 Ozt.; 32.14665625 Grammes




1823:
1 Wiener Loth (Commercial) = 0.562789724 Ozt.; 17.5047169 Grammes
1 Prager Loth (Commercial) = 0.516530389 Ozt.; 16.0658908 Grammes
1 Wiener Loth (Sibergewicht) = 0.515806078 Ozt.; 16.0433622 Grammes

1 Apotheker Unze = 1.12554726 Ozt.; 35.0084326 Grammes

1 English Troy Ounce = 0.888456699 Apotheker Unze

Commerce-Weight. The Wiener Zentner contains 5 Stein to 20 Pfunde, or 100 Pfunde. The {Wiener} Pfund, which is divided in half and quarter-Pfunde, contains 32 Lothe, each about 4 Quentchen or Quinteln. The Bohemian Zentner contains 120 Pfunde, which likewise each has 32 Lothe, the Loth is divided to 4 Quentchen; 100 Wiener Pfunde are equal to 108.875 Bohemian Pfunde. The {Commercial} Wiener Pfund contains 11,655 Holland Assen, the Bohemian 10,697.

The Apothecary Pfund has 12 Unzen at 8 Drachme each; the Drachme 3 Skrupeln, the Skrupel about 20 Gran. 12 Unzen contains 8,741 Holland Assen. Thus the Apothecary Pfund is exactly 75% the Commercial-Weight Wiener Pfund, an Unze likewise 2 Lothe and the Drachma 1 Quentchen.

The Viennese Gold- and Silverweight is the Mark to 16 Lothe, each 4 Quentchen.

The Mark contains 80.4 imperial ducats and weighs 5,341 Holland Assen; 5 Wiener Mark equal 6 Kölnischen Marks.

Citation: A. W. Griesel's Neuestes Gemälde von Prag (1823) p.144-5




Austria: 

(Austrian) Handelsgewicht Unze .........    1.12528 Ozt.

(Austrian) Handelsgewicht Loth ...........  0.56264 Ozt.

(Austrian) Handelsgewicht Drachme .... 0.14066 Ozt.

(Austrian) Handelsgewicht Gramme ....  0.03517 Ozt.

(Austrian) Handelsgewicht Gran ..........  0.00257 Ozt.

1 Wiener Mark (16 Wiener Loths Silbergewicht) = 9.02291424 Ozt.; 280.644 Grammes
1 Wiener Loth Silbergewicht) = 0.56393214 Ozt.; 17.54 Grammes

1 English Troy Ounce  = 426.6594833 Wiener Gran Medicalgewicht  
1 Wiener Unze Medicalgewicht    = 1.12530187 Ozt.
1 Wiener Drachme Medicalgewicht    = 67.5165663 English Troy Grains
1 Wiener Gran Medicalgewicht    = 1.1250189 English Troy Grains
   
Citation: Handbuch de Naturlehre; G. W. Muncke (1829) p.147




1 Wiener Mark (16 Wiener Loths Silbergewicht) = 9.02592439 Ozt.; 280.7376 Grammes
1 Wiener Loth Silbergewicht) = 0.56412 Ozt.; 17.5461 Grammes

1 Wiener Apotheker Unze = 1.125675427 Ozt.; 35.01241901 Grammes
1 Wiener Apotheker Drachme = 0.140709428 Ozt.; 4.376552376 Grammes

Another erroneous calculation:
1 Wiener Apothekerpfund Unze = 0.888395833 Ozt.; 27.6321988 Grammes





Bohemia/Prague:

c.1829: 1 Prague Loth = 16.05 g.
 
Citation: Die landwirthschaftliche Baukunst. - Prag, Schönfeld 1826-29; Johann Philipp Joendl (1829) p.677

 


c.1833: 1 Prague Handelgewicht Loth = 0.516916688 Ozt.; 16.077906 g.


c.1833: 1 Prague Silbergewicht Loth = 15.8163 g.
c.1833: 1 Prague Pfund = 514.51 69 g., 1 Prague Loth = 16.079 g.

1 Prager Mark (16 Prager Loths Silbergewicht) = 8.13606804 Ozt.; 253.06 Grammes
1 Wiener Loth Silbergewicht) = 0.508504253 Ozt.; 15.81625 Grammes

1 Prager Loth Silbergewicht = 0.509915 Ozt. or 15.8601296 Grammes
 







1848: 1 Wiener Cölniche Loth = 14.6169 g.  
1848: 1 Weiner Loth Silbergewicht = 17.54025 g. ; 0.56393214 Ozt.




1856: 1 Wiener Cöllnische Mark = 233.87 Grammes ; 7.519 Ozt.
1 Gram = 280.2241 Wiener Cölln. Mark-Richtpfennige

1 Apotheker Unze = 1.12531 Ozt.; 35.001053 Grammes



1859: 1 Wiener kölnische Mark = 233.87 Grammes ; 7.519 Ozt.
 = 1 Wiener kölnische Loth= 14.6169 Grammes ; ~0.47 Ozt.



c.1860 1 Ducaten = 3.490597 g.



c.1860 1 Wiener Loth = 17.54 g.



500 Grammes =28.5 Wiener Loth, so 1 Kilogram = 57 Wiener Loth;  1 English Troy Ounce = 1.832592579 Wiener Loth, and 1 Wiener Loth = 17.54385965 Grams.




The so-called "old Vienna Pfund" was 560.012 g, or 18 English Troy Ounces, 1 Loth = 17.50 Grams.

c. 1840 estimation

 
Dukaten = 3.49 g.
Where 1 Ducaten = 3.48882 g.



1849: 1 Ducaten = 3.490598 g. 





 

 
































 

(In Frankfurt, 1 Unze Inhalt was 28.409 cc.) 
Wine measure:  1 Cubic Inch = 
Prag






Assuming Jacquin's calculation of the Viennese Cylinder of Water correct (1.570795 Kubik~Zoll = 393.6 Wiener Gran; 1 Kubik~Zoll = 250.5738 Wiener Gran (222.6087 English Troy Grains ; 14.4248 Grams) ; likewise assuming the Wiener Apothecary Unze of 480 Gran, the metric weight '1 Unze Wasser' should be 27.6322 Grams {27.6322 cc}.




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