They employ a coin of silver called a prac-bat or preasat, worth 4 strings or ⅟₂₅ nên6.
The Mexican piastre, which circulates also, is worth on the average about 6 strings of cash.
1 gold ingot = 16 nêns of silver.
The half ingot of gold is also used = 8 ingots of silver.
The unit of commercial or avoirdupois weight is the catty (called by the Cambodians the neal) or pound.
| 1 neal (catty) (600 grammes) | = | 16 tomlongs or taels (ounces). |
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| 1 tomlong (37·5 grammes) | = | 10 chi (of 3·75 grammes). |
| 1 chi | = | 10 hun . |
The preceding weights are plainly borrowed from the Chinese, whilst the following are regarded as native in origin.
| 1 pey | = | 0·292 grammes. |
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| 4 pey | = | 1 fuong (1·174 grammes). |
| 2 fuong | = | 1 slong (2·344 grammes). |
| 4 slong | = | 1 bat (9·375 grammes). |
| 4 bat | = | 1 tomlong (37·5 grammes). |
For heavy merchandise they employ the hap or picul.
There are three varieties of picul: (1) that of the weight of 40 strings of cash (= 100 catties), (2) that of 42 strings, (3) that of 45 strings.
It will be noticed that the first-mentioned is simply the standard of the Chinese picul of 133⅓ lbs. English, whilst the others are native.