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Tower pound
Tower pound Also 6–8 pound Tower. [So called from the standard pound which was kept in the Tower of London.] A pound weight of 5400 grains (= 111/4 Troy ounces), which was the legal mint pound of England prior to the adoption of the Troy pound of 5760 grains in 1526. So Tower weight, weight expresse... Oxford English Dictionary
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Ounce
Spanish ounce The Spanish pound (Spanish libra) was 460 g. The Spanish ounce (Spanish onza) was of a pound, i.e. 28.75 g. Tower ounce The Tower ounce of was a fraction of the tower pound used in the English mints, the principal one being in the Tower of London. wikipedia.org
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Pound | mass, force, gravity | Britannica
pound, unit of avoirdupois weight, equal to 16 ounces, 7,000 grains, or 0.45359237 kg, and of troy and apothecaries' weight, equal to 12 ounces, 5,760 grains, or 0.3732417216 kg.The Roman ancestor of the modern pound, the libra, is the source of the abbreviation lb.In medieval England several derivations of the libra vied for general acceptance. . Among the earliest of these, the Tower pound ...
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Pound (lb) Weight Conversion Calculator - Inch Calculator
The pound originates from the libra, which is where the abbreviation "lb" comes from. The libra was a Roman unit of mass equal to 328.9 grams, or about 123 ounces. Over time, the libra was replaced by variations of the pound, such as the tower pound and the troy pound. Eventually it evolved into the modern variation, the avoirdupois pound.
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GBP Pound symbol sign - Symbols ☯ Emoji
What pound means. Pound symbol £ is a currency sign used in UK. It derives from a capital "L", representing libra, the basic unit of weight in the Roman Empire, which in turn is derived from the Latin name for scales or a balance. The pound became an English unit of weight and was so named because it originally had the value of one tower pound ...
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Tower weight
Tower weight see Tower pound. Oxford English Dictionary
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Cologne mark
This ounce was the basis of several other pounds, including in England the Tower pound (12 ounces), the Merchant's pound (15 ounces), and the London pound pound (1 marks). wikipedia.org
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troy
troy2 (trɔɪ) Forms: 4–6 troye, 5 troie, 5– troy; also Sc. 5–7 trois, 6 troiss, troyis, (troce). [The received opinion is that it took its name from a weight used at the fair of Troyes in France, which is favoured by the Scottish forms, trois, troiss, troyis.] troy weight († weight of Troy), also ell... Oxford English Dictionary
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Penny (English coin)
It was standardized to 32 Tower grains, of a Tower pound (approx. 350 g). The weight standard was changed to the Troy pound (373.242 g) in 1527 under Henry VIII, i.e. a pennyweight became about 1.555 grams. wikipedia.org
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Grain (unit)
The Tower pound was one of many monetary pounds of 240 silver pennies. The pound in question is the Tower pound. The original mercantile pound of 25 shillings or 15 (Tower) ounces was displaced by, variously, the pound of the Hanseatic League (16 tower ounces) and wikipedia.org
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Coins of the Manx pound
Since 2017, coins of the Isle of Man are minted by the Tower Mint. The Manx pound matches the pound sterling and went decimal in 1971, with the UK, however since this date the Isle of Man has been at the forefront of coin wikipedia.org
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£
在某些国家或地区这个记号也用作代表当地的同名货币；此外，也有一些国家的货币称为「镑」（the pound），但不使用£做为代表记号。 这两个记号都是由大写的拉丁字母「L」衍生而来，代表罗马重量基本单位「librum」，本意是「计重秤」或「平衡」。 「磅」（pound）成为英国使用的重量单位，而货币单位之所以也命名为「镑」（pound），是由于当初是代表一磅塔重（Tower Weight，326公克）纯银的价值。 在英语中，英镑记号是放在数字的前面（例如应为£12,000，而不是12,000£），和数字之间可直接相连，或是用空格隔开。 wikipedia.org
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Pennyweight
At that time, the pound unit in use in England was the Tower pound, equal to 7,680 Tower grains (also known as wheat grains). When Troy weights replaced Tower weights in 1527, the Troy weights were defined in such a way that the old Tower pound came out to exactly 5,400 Troy grains wikipedia.org
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Saint Mary's Tower
The tower's architect is unknown. By 1791, its armament included two 12-pound iron cannon, one 10-pound bronze cannon, one 4-pound bronze cannon, and two 3-pound bronze cannon. wikipedia.org
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Prince of Wales Tower
There were five Martello Towers built in Halifax, the Prince of Wales Tower being the last remaining Tower. By 1813, the Tower mounted four 6-pound guns on garrison carriages on its barrack level, two 24-pound guns on traversing platforms and six 24-pound cannonades wikipedia.org
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