RIXDOLLAR. 



equal to 8/. 4</. Flemifli, and a gilder = $s. ^d. Flemifh. may be referred to, or compared with, the following, via. ; 



A gold gilder, with which accounts are kept in the corn in gold, the ducat, the piitole, and the gold florin or gul- 



trade, is worth 28 (livers. At Copenhagen accounts are den; and in filver, the rixdollar fpecie, and its fubdivifions. 



kept in rykfdalers or rixdollars of 6 marks, or 96 (hillings The piltoles are all reckoned at 5 rixdollars current. The 



Danifh. In the duchies of HoKtein and Slefwig accounts gold florins, chiefly current in countries on the bank3 of the 



are kept in rixdollars of 3 marks, or 4S (hillings Lubs, and Rhine, pafs generally for 2 rixdollars current, and are to 



at Elfineur on the Sound, accounts are kept in rixdollars of contain 18-V carats of line gold, 3; carats of fine filver, and 



4 orts, or 96 (killings Danifh. The bafc rixdollar (fletdaler), 

 which is an imaginary coin, is reckoned at 4 marks, or 64 (kil- 

 lings Dani(h. A mark is divided into 16 (killings or (hil- 

 lings ; and a (killing into 2 fyrkes, 3 wittens, or 1 2 pfenings 

 Danifh. The Danifh denominations of marks and (hillings 

 bear only half the value of the fame denominations in Lubs 

 or Hamburgh money : thus, 2 marks Danifh are worth 

 1 mark Hamburgh, Sec. In filver, fpecie rixdollars, which 

 pafs for 7 marks 6 (killings Danifh currency, are commonly 

 reckoned at 6 marks 12 (killings crown money, at the toll on 

 the Sound. There is alfo the new Holftein currency, coined 

 fincc the year 1788, confiding of fpecie rixdollars, at 48 



I J carat of copper : 72 gold florins are to weigh a Cologne 

 mark. Since the eftablifhment of the convention in 1763, 

 the Cologne mark of fine filver is valued at 13; rixdollars ef 

 account, or 10 rixdollars effedtive, or 20 florins. In fmall 

 payments, the Cologne mark of fine filver being reckoned 

 at 16 rixdollars of account, or 24 florins, each ot the coins 

 is rated 20 per cent, higher than its value in convention 

 money ; the fpecie rixdollar paffes for 2 ! florins, the con- 

 vention florin for 1} florin, and the coptltuck for 24 creut- 

 zers. According to the Leiplic rate of coinage, the Co- 

 logne mark of fine filver was valuod at 1 2 rixdollars of ac- 

 count, 9 effe&ive rixdollars, or iS florins ; 8 fpecie rixdol- 



ihillings fpecie, or 60 (hillings HoKtein currency ; and pieces lars were to weigh a Cologne mark of filver, 14 loths 



of 32, 16, 8, 4 and 2 (hillings ipecie, or 40, 20, 10, 5 and 4 grains tine: in the fmalleil coins, fuch as double and 



ji (hillings Holftein currency. In this money, the Cologne fingle marien grofchen, the mark of fine filver was coined at 



mark of fine filver is coined into 9^ rixdollars fpecie, or the rate of 12; rixdollars. Thele coins are known by the 



1I T V rixdollars currency. 



Any perfon, whether a native or a foreigner, may open 

 an account at the bank of Copenhagen, on paying 4 rix- 

 dollars a year for each folio, and whenever he wifhes to have 

 his account fettled. Beiides, this bank charges a commillion 

 of I per 1000 for all the money inicribed or transferred in 

 the books. Bank notes are iffued of the value of 80, 40, 

 20, 8, and 4 rixdollars fpecie; or 100, 50, 25, 10, and 5 

 rixdollars currency. Thefe are current through the Danifh 

 dominions, and they are to be paid off on demand at the 

 bank. 



By a royal edi£t of 1776, fettling the rate of coinage, 95 rix- 

 dollars fpecie are to contain a mark of fine filver ; each piece 



name of " conftitution coins:" 100 rixdollars, coined after 

 the Lieplic rate, are worth 1 1 1 ,', convention rixdollars. 

 The finenefs of gold is valued all over Germany by di- 

 viding the mark fine into 24 carats, and the carat into 12 

 grains ; the finenefs of filver, by dividing the mark fine into 

 16 loths, and the loth into ifi grains. At Hamburgh, the 

 rcichfthaller, or rixdollar, is 3 marks, 48 (hillings, or 576 

 pfenings ; the rixdollar of exchange is 2 marks, 32 (hillings, 

 or 384 pfenings. The filver coins of this city are rixdollars 

 reckoned at 3 marks fpecie, which commonly pafs for | per 

 cent, better than banco, or for 3 marks 12 (hillings 5 pence 

 Hamburgh currency. All fons of fpecie rixdollars, when 

 they are full banco weight, are reckoned at 3 mr.rks, with 



weighing 537.69 efchen, Cologne weight, or 447.9 E.iglifh about \ per cent, premium againlt banco, or at 4 marks 



grains, and being 14 lods or -J-Jths fine ; fo that it contains 

 391.9 Englilh grains of fine filver. The rixdollar Danifh 

 currency, in current ducats or 12 inarkpieces, is equivalent 

 to 28.48 German afes, or 21 .' Englifh grains of fine gold ; 

 and the fame rixdollar, in filver currency, contains 429 afes, 

 or 318 grains of fine filver. The rixdollar in crowns may 

 be valued at 467 afes, or 346' grains of fine filver. Thus 

 the proportion of gold to filver is as 15,5., to I. One 

 hundred rixdollars Hamburgh banco anhver to 113; rix- 

 dollars in crowns, or 123 r V, rixdollars Danifh currency : the 

 latter may be confidered at par with Hamburgh currency. 

 The rixdollar currency is = 3J. Si^/. (lerling ; and the rix- 

 dollar in crowns = 4_r. o\d. fterling ; or a fingle crown 

 piece = l6ri. fterling ; a current ducat = Js. <$hl. (lerling ; 

 and 1/. fterling = 5 rixdollars 2 marks 6 {killings currency, 

 or 4 rixdollars 5 marks 12 (killings crown money. 



The mod common way of keeping accounts in Germany 

 is in rixdollars of 90 creutzers, or in guldens or florins of 

 60 creutzers ; the rixdollar of account, or (as it is generally 

 tailed) rixdollar current, is reckoned at I-J- florin, and the 

 rixdollar fpecie or effeftive at 2 florins, or 120 creutzers. 

 In Prufiia, Saxony, Hanover, Brunfwick, and Luneburg, 

 accounts are kept in rixdollars of 24 good grofchen, each 

 good grofche being divided into 12 pfenings; or in rix- 

 dollars of 36 marien grofchen, each marien grofche being 



light money, with about 33 per cent, dilcount below banco. 

 But the value of n common fpecie rixdollar, in current 

 money, is 3 marks 12 (hillings, and the halves and quarters 

 in proportion. 



Accounts are kept in Sweden in rikfdaler of 48 fkilling, 

 the (killing being fubdivided into 12 runftycken or ore. By 

 the regulations of 1777, the fpecie rikfdaler was to pafs for 

 the fame value that 6 filver dahler, or 18 kopper dahler, 

 formerly did ; and there were coined whole rikfdaler, and 

 pieces of jds, d, ,'th, ,'jth, and ^Vth ot a rikfdaler. Ac- 

 cording to the mint regulations, the Swedifh fpecie rikfdaler 

 thould weigh 609 Sv.vdilh afs, or 451* Englifh grains, and 

 contains 535 afs, or 3964 grams of tine filver; it is there- 

 fore worth 4J. 7i</. fterling, and the (killing I ,\d. nearly. 

 For the value or rixdollars, current in various places, ac- 

 cording to tin mint price of filver in England, lee Money. 



The rixdollar (conftitution) of the Auftrian dominions 

 has on it the head ot the reigning emperor, with name and 

 titles, thus : car. VI. ». a. it. 1. s. \. o. hi. h. boh. rex ; 

 that is, Carolus fextus, Del gratia, Rumanus tmperator Jemper 

 atigujlus, Germanic, Hierojblyms, Hun«ari<e, Bohenute rex 

 (Charles VI. by the grace of God, emperor of Rome, ever 

 atiguft, king ot Germany, Jerufalem, Hungary, and Bo- 

 hemia) ; reverfe, .: two headed eagle crowned, bearing on 

 his brcalt the arms of Auliria, and iu his talons a fvvord 

 divided into 8 pfenings. At Hamburgh, Altona, Lubeck, and fceptre ; legend, ARCH1D. &VST. D. iu. »i. mor. com. 

 HoKtein, and Mecklenburg, accounts are kept in marks of tY. (archduke ot Aultria, duke of Burgundy, marquis of 

 16 (hillings lubs, each (hilling being divided into !2 pfenings; Moravia, count of Tyrol), with the date ; and on the ed^e 

 and the rixdollar reckoned at 3 marks. Each independent of the piece, constant).!; continex oubi m, (he guides 

 itat e or city of Germany has its own coins, molt of which the globe Readily). 



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