American Pocket Library of Useful Knowledge/Foreign Moneys

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FOREIGN MONEYS,

WITH THEIR VALUES, AS ESTIMATED AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE BY LAW.

Dollars.
Aux Cates, 8 1/4 livres are equal to 1.00
Blue or current Dollar of Denmark, according
to the exchange of London.
Cayenne, 8 livres 5 sols of, are equal to 1.00
Ducat of Naples 0.80
Franc of France 0.18 3/4
Florin of Trieste 0.48
Genoa, 6 1/3 livres are taken as 1.00
Guadaloupe, 8 livres and 5 sols 1.00
Guilder of Antwerp 0.40
Guilder of Crefelt 0.40
Guilder of Frankfort, and others of the 24
Guilder of florin rate
0.40
Guilder of Holland 0.40
Guilder of Nuremburg 0.40
Guilder of St. Gall, 0.40 36/100
Guilder of Trieste 0.48
Guilder of United Netherlands 0.40
Livre of France 0.18 1/2
Livre of Geneva 0.29
Livre of Genoa, 6 1/3 livres 1.00
Livre of Leghorn, 6 1/2 livres 1.00
Louis d’or Rix-dollar 0.77
Marc Banco of Hamburg 0.33 1/3
Milrea of Brazil, according to rate of exchange.
Milrea of Madeira 1.00
Milrea of Portugal 1.24
Ounce of Sicily 2.46
Pezza of Leghorn, 0.90 76/100
Piastre of Turkey, according to rate of exchange
in London.
Pound Sterling of England, Scotland, and Ireland 4.80
Pound Sterling of Antigua 2.22
Pound Sterling of Barbadoes 3.20
Pound Sterling of Bermuda 3.00
Pound Sterling of Halifax 4.00
Pound Sterling of Jamaica 3.00
Pound Sterling of New Providence 2.50
Rial Plate of Spain 0.10
Rial Velon of Spain 0.05
Rix-dollar of Bremen 0.77
Rix-dollar of Denmark 1.00
Rix-dollar of Berlin, current, 0.68 29/100
Rix-dollar of Hamburg 1.00
Rix-dollar of Prussia, 0.68 29/100
Rix-dollar of Saxony 0.69
Rix-dollar of Sweden 1.00
Ruble of Russia, according to the exchange
between London and St. Petersburg.
Rupee of Bombay, Calcutta, and Sicca, each 0.50
Rupee of Madras, 108=100 Sicca rupees.
Star Pagoda of India 1.84
St. Bartholomews, 8 s. 3 d. 1.00
St. Kitts, 9 s. 0 d. 1.00
Tale of China 1.48