Esterlin
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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]
