2000 1/2 Troy Pound Fine Silver Value

Agreed, Fred. The trick would have been to convert all of the old English measurements to metric for commercial applications, which was done to some extent with 3.785L bottles of milk. Had they done that with ALL food and beverage packages, it would not have been long before people tired of all those oddball sizes and requested that they be rounded. That would give us 4L milk bottles, 250 ml pop containers, liters of mayonnaise, etc. Of course, it is doubtful that we ever would have seen 10 eggs in a carton.

As to the metric system... technically, it was standardized by the French, in the late 1700s, if memory serves me.

Some of the people I used to work with were real characters and, as great aficionados of the metric system, took great delight in coming up with new English system measurement absurdities... such as furlongs per fortnight as a velocity measurement.

I remember those days too. In fact, we treated things like that as Easter eggs to be found and held up as trophies. Our physics teacher even offered extra credit points for such finds.

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This will show you the weight in various systems.

It will even convert your Troy Ounces to Taels (common gold measurement in the Orient) but not into Tolas (common gold measurement in India and South Asia).

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