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Nuremberg weights and measures

As a major centre of both trade and manufacture, Nuremberg had its own standards of weights and measures. It also produced the jetons or tokens that were used to reckon up accounts [1, 2].

Other narratives:

  • Inventory no. 44165 - Former Display Label

Related Objects:

  • Inventory No. 44165, "Jeton, by or for Hanns Krauwickel, Nuremberg, 16th Century", Krauwickel, Hanns
  • Inventory No. 46136, "Jeton, Nuremberg?, 16th Century"
  • Inventory No. 47282, "Diagonal Plotting Scale, by G. F. Kordenbusch, Nuremberg, 1773", Kordenbusch, G. F.
  • Inventory No. 53959, "Nest of Cup Weights, Nuremberg, c. 1670"
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