Esterlin

The esterlin is an obsolete French unit of mass weighing about 1.5138 gram. It was used as a unit of mass for gold in France weighing 28 ½ Grain.[1] In the Austrian Netherlands its place in the unit-chain was

* 1 livre or pond/pound = 2 mark = 16 once = 320 esterlin = 1280 felins = 10240 aß = 1 pond troy of Holland[2]
* 1 pond = 320 esterlin = 49.215,18 centigram[3]

In Belgium, it was valid that 1 livre = 1000 esterlin = 1000 gram[4]

## References

1. ↑ Kaltschmidt, Jacob Heinrich (1870). Neuestes und vollständigstes Fremdwörterbuch zur Erklärung aller aus fremden Sprachen entlehnten Wörter und Ausdrücke.
2. ↑ Homans, Isaac Smith Jr. (1859). "A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation, with maps and engravings".
3. ↑ Chelius, Georg Kaspar (1830). Maß- und Gewichtsbuch.
4. ↑ Mendelssohn, M. (1859). "Handbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtskunde unter Berücksichtigung des neuen Münz- und Gewichts-Systems, mit ausführlichen Reduktions-Tabellen".

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