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APPENDIX V

standard (see above, p. 378), 1 mark fine silver = 24 1⁄2

  1. The kronen-thaler standard, existing more or less between 1808 and 1837 in such of the states of the South as had adopted the minting of the Brabant or crown thaler-piece, 9.18 to a mark fine, and issued at 2 guldens 42 kreutzers, representing a 24 4⁄5-gulden standard. It was this system which called into being the 24 1⁄2-gulden standard, by the evolution of which it was itself completely superseded.
  1. Wechselzahlung, or Wechselgeld, the bank reckoning system of Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 20 4⁄55 guldens = 13 21⁄55 thalers = 1 mark fine silver. The standard was, therefore, 4⁄11 lighter than the 20-gulden or convention standard. Page 387
  1. The Augsburg girogeld, a system which existed till 1st July 1845, and in which the exchange with Amsterdam and Hamburg was expressed. Mark of fine
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