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TABLE OF FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MONEYS AND EXCHANGES.
Place.
Australia, &c
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Bremen
Buenos Ajres
Canada
Cape Colony
China
Cuba
Demerara, &c
Denmark
Egypt
France
Frankfort (Mayn)
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Gibraltar
Greece
Hamburg
Holland
India
Italy
Japan
Malta
Mexico, Chili, &c
Monte Video
Morocco
Naples
New Brunswick
New Granada
Norway
Nova Scotia
Persia
Portugal
Prussia, &c
Roman States
Russia
Sicily
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
United States
Venetia
West Indies, British..
Moneys.
Pounds, shillings, and pence sterling.
100 new kreuzers, = 1 florin
100 cents = 1 franc ,
1000 reas = 1 paper milrea, about ,
360 schwaren = 72 grotes = 1 rixdollar
128 quartos = 8 rials = 1 paper dollar
100 cents = 1 dollar
Eschanges reckoned as in United States.
Pounds, shillings, and pence sterling.
100 candarines = 10 mace = 1 tael
]00 cents, or 8 reals = 1 dollar
100 cents = 1 dollar ,
96 skillings = 1 rigsbank dollar
40 paras = 1 piastre
100 centimes = 1 franc ,
80 francs = 81 old livres of 20 sous
Florin of 60 kreuzers
North German, or Prussian dollar
South German florin
By Treaty of 1857, 2 Prus. dol., 3 Austrian
florins, or 3^ S. German florins = 1 Dnion
2 dollar piece
192 quartos = 12 reals = 1 hard dollar
100 centimes = 1 drachma
16 schillings = 1 mark banco
16 schillings = 1 current mark
100 cents or 20 stivers = 1 florin or guil
192 pice = 16 annas = 1 rupee
Tiie lac is 100,000 rupees = £9270.
100 centesimi = 1 lira nuova
100 candarines or 10 mas = 1 paper tael
600 grani = 30 tari = 2g scudi = 1 pezza
100 cents or 8 reals = 1 hard dollar
800 reis = 8 reals = 1 current dollar (?)
40 blankeels — 10 ounces = 1 mitkul
100 grani = 10 carlini = 5 tari = 1 ducat
20 shillings = £1 Halifax currency
100 cents = 1 new dollar
96 skillings = 1 species dollar
20 shillings = £1 currency
50 abassis = 10 karauns = 1 tomaun
1000 reas = 1 milrea ($)
30 silver groschen = 1 thaler or dollar
100 bajocchi = 10 paoli = 1 scudo
100 copecs = 1 silver ruble
Bank or paper ruble (abolished 1843)
600 grani = 30 tari = 2| scudi = 1 onza
100 centesimi = 1 lira nuova
100 cents = 1 hard dollar
100 centavos = 1 real vellon
20 reals de vellon = 1 duro
100 ore = 1 Tiksdaler-riksmynt
100 rappen or centimes — 1 franc
40 paras = 1 piastre
100 cents — 1 dollar (S)
10 dollars = 1 eagle
In exchanges the dollar is valued at 4s. 6d
giving a premium for bills on London.
100 centesimi = 1 lira Austriacha
100 cents = 1 dollar
Pounds, shillings, and pence sterling.
Sterling
nearly.
s. d.
1 lU
u,
2 3
3 U
2?
4 1|
2i
9j
1 71
2 10|
1 73
5 9^
4 2
8|
1 5k
1 2|
1 8
1 10|
94
11'
4 11
4 2"
64
16 5.4
4 O"
4 4|-
16
10
4 84
2 103
4 2
3 IJ
103
10 3i
9i
4 2
21
4 2
Ik
Exchange at Par with
London.
10 fl. 36 kr. per £1.
25 fr. 22 cents per £1.
— d. per ISOOO.
6U9^ rix. per £100,
— d. per paper dollar.
Premium 9^ per cent.
Premium 8 per cent.
50d. per §1.
9 r. dol. 10 sk. per £1.
96 piastres p;.'r £1.
25 fr. 22 cents per £1.
120| florins per £10.
50d. per hard dollar.
28 dr. 15 cents, per £1.
13 m. b. 10^ s. per £1.
12 florins per £1.
(Is. lOid. per Com-
\ pany's rupee.
25 lira 22 cents per £1.
T. 4-7 per ?1.
49gd. per pezza.
50d. per §1.
39|d. per ducat.
4 sp. d. 53 sk. per £1.
56id. per ISCOO.
6 dol. 27 gr. per £1.
3 scudo 4 '80 per £1.
11°, 6, 40 c. per £1.
1234d. per onza.
25 lira 22 cents per £1.
50d. per dollar.
50d. per hard dollar.
18^ riks. riks. per £1.
25 fr. 22 cents per £1.
210 piastres per £1.
( Prem. 94 per cent., or
< 4 dollars 86| cents
(. per £1.
29 lira 52 cents per £1.
In the above valuations, standard gold is estimated at £3, 17s. lO^d., and silver at 5b. per ounce.