Gold for VMs (WAS(Re: VMs: Mad Kircher, was (lots))

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

*Gold Equivalent for VMs*

Basis     			grams    troy ounces
----------------------------   	------  -------------
Western Europe (Jacques Guy)	 1742	   56.0
Polish (Rafal Prinke)		 2100	   67.5


	Just a little further clarification for the record.  
Here's how I got the gold equivalents of the "600
ducats".

> Jacques Guy wrote:
> >
> > Now, 100 francs contained 32.258 grams of 90% gold
> > (a British pound, BTW, was 7.98805 grams of 91.(6)%
> > gold (11/12th, so: 22k). I'd count 1 ducat = 10 francs
> > (they _were_ gold ducats, if I remember).

	So 600 * 10 * 0.9 * 32.258/100 = 1741.932 gram gold
				       =   56.0 troy oz gold


> "Rafal T. Prinke" wrote:
> >
> > So one Polish ducat was equivalent to
> > circa 23 grams of pure silver or
> > circa 3,5 grams of gold.

	On this basis, 

	600 * 3.5 = 2100 gram gold
		  =   67.5 troy oz gold
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