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A zolotnik (in Russian: золотни́к; abbr.: zol.) was a small Russian unit of weight, equal to 0.1505 avoirdupois ounces, or 4.2658 grams (about 65.83 grains). Used from the 10th to 20th centuries, its name is derived from the Russian word zoloto , meaning gold .
Мал золотник, да до́рог: A zolotnik is small, but expensive: when quality rather than quantity is important; Идти семимильными шагами: To walk in 7-mile steps – any kind of very fast progress, e.g., of improvement
91 zolotnik Russian silver has a millesimal fineness of 947. The zolotnik (Russian золотник, from the Russian zoloto, or золото, meaning gold) was used in Russia as early as the 11th century to denote the weight of gold coins. In its earliest usage, the zolotnik was 1/96 of a pound, but it later was changed to represent 1/72 of a ...
875: 84 zolotnik is the most common fineness for Russian silver. Swiss standard, commonly used for export watchcases (also 800 and later 935). 868: 83 1 ⁄ 3 zolotnik. Imperial Russian coinage between 1797 [10] and 1885. [11]
The Byzantine solidus also inspired the zolotnik in the Kievan Rus' and the originally slightly less pure gold dinar first issued by the Umayyad Caliphate beginning in 697. In Western Europe, the solidus was the main gold coin of commerce from late Roman times to the Early Middle Ages.
Zolotnik This page was last edited on 29 March 2024, at 14:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
Kuna is a weight and monetary unit, as well as the name of the coins used in Kievan Rus' and the Russian lands from the 10th to 15th centuries. The circulation of money in Rus' arose at the beginning of the 9th century due to the massive penetration into the Rus' lands of the eastern dirham weighing 2.73 g which gets the name "Kuna".
An overview of farm-derived units of measurement.Several of these are obsolete: the oxgang, the virgate, and the carucate.. Antsingae – a unit of area, smaller than the bunarium.