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536 FORTIA’S TRAVELS IN SWEDEN.
1 to 16. The Swedih rix-dollar, although it have the advantage in purity over that of
Holland by one grain as well as that of Hamburgh, is yet exchanged with both at par.
There is regularly but one mint in Sweden, which is at Stockholm: although in
Dalecarlia there be a copper.coinage on which the arms of the province are ftamped,
and which has currency throughout that country and its neighbourhood.
The accounts of the crown are kept in dollars //bermunt, as are accounts in general
in Scania, Halland, Bleking, and Gottenburgh ; in thefe parts moft payments are made
in paper; Bank notes are confidered as cath, and are even frequently taken with greater
avidity. The paper of the States, particularly that of Finland recently called in, are at
a fmaller or greater difcount according to circumftances. Merchants keep their ac-
counts in dollars and cers. The {chelling or fcaling is an imaginary money, 48 of which
go to the dollar. :
Although the exchange between Sweden and other countries varies according to the
balance of trade, by the ordonnance of 1776 the courfe was fixed as under.
On Amfterdam, - 45 fchillings per rix-dollar current.
Copenhagen, - 100 rix-dollars fpecie per 120 rix-dollars current.
Spain, e - 41 {chillings per ducat of exchange.
Hamburgh, - 47 {chillings per rix-dollar banco,
Lifbon, - - 22 {chillings per crufado of 400 ries,
London, - 4 rix-dollars 15 [chillings per pound fterling.
Parise} » - - 25 {chillings per Ecu de 60 fous Tournois.
Stralfund, - 100 rix-dollars fpecie per 132 rix-dollars of Pomerania.
Extract of the Royal Ordonnance relative to Money, of the 27th November, 1776.
No one whatfoever fhall be obliged, in payments above the value of a rix-dollar, to
receive a larger quantity of fmall copper coin at one time than half a rix-dollar.
Gold coins being requifite for the convenience of trade, Swedifh ducats as well as
thofe of Holland, of full weight, and with a chain round the ridge, fhall be received in
circulation in concurrence with the rix-dollar at the rate of 94 {killings or 1 rix-dollar
46 {killings; which in currency amounts at the period of the date of this to 35 dollars
8 cers in copper money, or 11 dollars 24 cers /i/bermunt.
All purchafes, fales, and tranfactions of every defcription regarding money, and being
in writing, fhall be ftipulated from the commencement of the enfuing year in rix-dollars,
and in default of compliance with this ordonnance, fhall be deemed illegal.
Weights of Sweden and Stralfund.
‘The Skolpfund is 1 lb. which is divided into
32 — — ° Loths,
96 _ Quintins,
132 = _ Dragmes,
and 1848 — aa Affes.
The four weights ufed in trade contain — Affes.
The weight for provifions. Vigt. — — 8848
Mark, miner’s weight. Bergverk/vigt. _ 7224
Mark, Flat country or Town weight. Lund och Stadts vigt. 7078
Pound, Apothecaries’ weight, _ — 7416
The Sten, _ ~ —_— — *: arkbs.
Lifpund, = _ — — 20
2 16 Lif-
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