Volume 1
The universal cambist and commercial instructor; being a full and accurate treatise on the exchanges, monies, weights, and measures of all trading nations and their colonies. With an account of their banks, public funds, and paper currencies / By P. Kelly.
- Patrick Kelly
- Date:
- 1821
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The universal cambist and commercial instructor; being a full and accurate treatise on the exchanges, monies, weights, and measures of all trading nations and their colonies. With an account of their banks, public funds, and paper currencies / By P. Kelly. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![COLOGNE—CONSTANTINOPLE Usance ami 1 );i_vs ut Grace. Monies of Account. Gold Coins. Silver Coins. Fineness of G old and Silver. Weights. The usance is 14 days sight. Six days grace are allowed, and if the sixth should fall on a Sunday, or holiday, the bill must be either paid or protested on the first day of business following. CONSTANTINOPLE fin Turkey). Accounts are kept in Piastres of 40 Paras, each Para being divided into 3 Aspers. These are real coins, but the Piastre is also an imaginary money, and is sometimes divided into 80, and also into 100 parts, called Aspers or Minas. The Piastre is mostly called Grouch by the Turks, and Dollar by the English. A Jux or Juck, is a sum of 100,000 real Aspers; and a Chise or Purse is 500 Piastres. The Gold coins of Turkey are the Sequin Funducli, with Halves and Quarters ; the Double Sequin, or Yermeebeshlik, the Misseir, and the Rubieli. There are other Sequins besides the above, which bear different names, and their values also vary according to the periods of their coinage. The principal Silver coin is the Piastre, which has varied in value from 2s. down to 9d. sterling, its present worth. There are also the Beslik and the piece of 10 Paras, for the value of which, as well as of the gold coins of Turkey, see Tables of Coins, Vol. II. The fineness of gold is expressed by dividing the weight into 24 Carats, and each Carat into 4 Grains ; and the fineness of silver by dividing it into 100 Carats, and each Carat into 4 Grains. The Chequee or Pound, with which gold, silver, diamonds, and precious stones are weighed, is divided into 100 Drams; and the Dram into 16 Killos, or G4 Grains. Heavy goods are neighed by the Cantaro or Quintal of ICO Rottoli. '] he Cantaro is also divided into 44 Okes, 176 Chequees, or 17600 Drams. I he Kintal of cotton yarn is 45 Okes. Silks from Persia are weighed by the Batman of 6 Okes; and silks from Brussa, by the TafFee of 610 Drams. w * 1 he Chequee of opium is 250 Drams, and of goat’s wool 600 Drains.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22012060_0001_0118.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
