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534: FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
Currency of Swedi/h Pomerania. uf
Value in the Country. Purity.
Kix-dol. Carats. Grains.
The gold Adolphus, =~ °
Rix-dollar, – I
Florin of the Empire, 12 to the do. rix-dol.
Florin of Pomerania, 3 todo.
Swedifh mark, —~ 6
Grofchen, —_ 24
Schelling, - 48
Sefling, = 96
Altinwiten, — 192
Pfinnings, —_ 576
Value in French and Englifh Money.
Trench Money. Sterling.
Liv. Sous, Be. fiase: eds
The golden ducat, — rae 1 omer mer
Rix-dollar, — i ahs A o 4..94
Plotte, _ _ ome 8 ontamny=
: Silver dollar, — or srig= G82) Ga
Schilling, — _ o 28den. oWnno Lae
The ton of gold is 100,000 filver dollars, clofe upon 4oool. fter.: viz. 39931. 1s. 14d.
The rix-dollar is worth 3 plottes; 6 filver dollars; 18 copper dollars; 48 fchil-
lings, and 192 ftivers.
Weight, Value, and Affize of Gold and Silver, according to Or donnance.
The mark for the affize of gold is divided into 24 carats, the carats into 12 grains.
The-mark for the aflize of filver is divided into 16 loths, each loth into 18 grains.
Wrought filver fhould be 13 loths anda quarter fine, but an allowance on aflaying is
made of one eighth part of a loth.
The mark of gold and filver is moreover compofed of 16 loths, 64 quintins, or
4284 affes.
The ordonnance of 1664, which regulated the weight of coins, is ftill obferved ; ac-
cording to this, one mark of gold makes 62 ducats, and of filver, five rix-dollars and
one fifth, which is 1 5 loths 2 grains each; anf{wering, according to Tillet and Cateau,
to 3 ounces 5 grofs 10 grains French weight. Cantzler quotes ordonnances with re-
fpcet to coin, as far down as to 1706, beginning with 1594. Within that interval no
alteration had been made in the ftandard for filver coin.
According to Cateau, eight rix-dollars are made from one mark of filver, of the
ftandard of 14 loths 1 grain. He {tates he omitted fraétions.
The ftandard of the ordonnance correfponds with 10 deniers 13 grains French.
From authentic experiments made at Paris, the Swedifh rix dollar weighs 540 grains,
and is of the os of.10 deniers 10 grains. ‘The ducat weighs 65 grains, and its
{tandard is 234% carats.
The common money is after the rate of 50 rix-dollars per fchipund of 272 pounds.
Ever fince 1745, copper fheets have not been current as money ; this currency has
become rare even, and it is now almoft impofflible to procure colleétions of it for the
cabinets of the curious. : Thefe
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