marc or mark

1

The mark of Cologne, a unit of mass, about 233.8 This mark was found throughout German-speaking Europe.

2

In Dutch troy weight, the mark trooisch, a unit of mass, about 246.08 grams. In addition to the subdivisions shown in the linked table, for pearls and diamonds the mark trooisch was divided into 1200 carats, 7½ of which made an engel.

The mark trooisch was also used in Antwerp, Brussels and Malines, divided into 8 onces = 160 esterlins or engels = 640 félins = 5120 as.

Doursther (1840).

3

In France, 12^th century¹ – late 18th century, a unit of mass, in Paris about 244.753 grams.

Location	marc (grams)
La Rochelle	244.75
Limoges	240.93
Tours	237.87
Troyes	260.05
Montpellier	239.12

In the Système Usuel, the marc was 250 grams.

1. F. Bailly.
Notice sur les anciennes mesures de Bourgogne.
Société d'histoire, d'archéologie et de littérature de l'arrondisment de Beaune. (1905)

Page 292.

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3

Sweden, 0.4645 pounds av.

4

In Austria, the Wiener Mark, a unit of mass used for silver. Article 4 of the law¹ establishing the metric system in Austria specified that the Wiener Mark was equivalent to 0.280668 gram.

1. Gesetz of 23 July 1871, R.G.B 1872, No. 16. The law is reproduced in
Georg Thaa.
Das Mass- und Gewichtwesen und der Richdienst in Österreich.
Volume 13 of Taschenausgabe de österreichischen Gesetze.
Vienna: Munz'sche k. u. k. Hof- Verlags- und Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1900.

5

In England, the mark, 15th century, a unit of count for certain types of metal goods, such as scissors, = 24.

...1 dozen buckles, 1 pound saffron, 3 marks ironware, 1 dozen needles...

H. S. Cobb, editor.
The Overseas Trade of London. Exchequer Customs Accounts 1480-1.
London Record Society, 1990.
Entry 180, page 62.

...sheres for sempsters the mark conteyning two dozen...

Thomas Stuart Willan, editor.
A Tudor Book of Rates.
Publications of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Manchester; no. 13.
Manchester (UK): University of Manchester Press, 1962.
Reprinted New York: Kelley, 1967.
Page 53.

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In England, the marke, a unit of mass equal to 8 ounces or half a pound.

In England wee commonly use two kinde of weights, as Troy and Averdupois : by the Troy weight we weigh wheat, bread, gold, silver, and such like, and this Troy weight containes in every pound 12 ounces, every ounce 20 peny weight, every peny weight 24 graines, whereby a Marke weight is 80 ounces, as in the insuing Table.

Arthur Hopton.
A concordancy of yeares : Containing a new, easie, and etc.
[London]: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1612.
Page 159.

Neither the mark nor the numeral “80” appear in the “insuing Table.” Hopton's chapter contains several obvious typosetting errors; for example, page 164 speaks of “foure skins in the Timber”, when a timber is 40 skins. “80” is probably a misprint for "8".

Gold and Silver thred counterfeite voc..
    French copper gold & silver the marke cont. eight ounces Avoir du poiz
    Lyons copper gold & silver double gilt the marke cont. eight ounces Haber de poiz
Gold & silver thred right vocat.
    Venice Florance or Millane gold & silver ye pound cont. xij ounces Venice weight
    French and Paris gold & silver the marke cont. eleven ounces & ½ Venice weight

“A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other summes of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported.”
A statute from the 12th year of Charles II, 1660. The selection is from the Booke of Rates, which is not part of the statute proper but developed from it. Both are printed in:
Statutes of the Realm, Volume 5: 1628-80, John Raithby, editor.
London: 1819.