Regency Economy: Cheat Sheet of Money for Young Ladies

STERLING MONEY 4 Farthings 1 Penny marked d 12 Pence 1 Shilling 20 Shillings 1 Pound Note The Merk Scotch is 13 pence and the Pound Scotch 20 pence Sterling hence 18 Merks Scotch or 12 Pounds Scotch is 1 Pound Sterling Oz TROY OR GOLDSMITH'S WEIGHT 24 Grains gr 1 Pennyweight marked dwt 20 Pennyweights 1 Ounce 12 Ounces 1 Pound 16 By this Weight Gold Silver Jewels & c are weighed Formerly the Ounce Troy was divided by Scotch Jewellers into 16 Drops of 30 Grains each but the English Division as above is now generally adopted in this country A Carat is a weight of 4 Troy Grains but when the term is applied to Gold it denotes its degree of fineness Any quantity of Gold is supposed to be divided into 24 parts or carats If the whole mass be pure it is said to be 24 carats fine If there be 23 parts of pure metal and 1 part of alloy it is called Gold of 23 carats fine and so on DIAMOND WEIGHT Diamonds and Pearls are also weighcd by Carats of 4 Grains but 4 Troy Grains 5 Diamond Grains 1 Ounce Troy 150 Diamond Carats This weight is nearly the same all over the Globe А

These handy tables appeared in the 1820 The Young Lady’s Guide to Practical Arithmetic … To which is Added, the Method of Keeping Accounts … Arranged on a New and Improved Plan

The examples and the foreward are fairly biased in their consideration of women and the topics they might use to apply maths, but there are some helpful charts that tell about all sorts of stats for the Regency era.

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