EXCHANGE. EXCHANGE is the bartering or felling of the money or value of one country for the like value in the coin, weight or meafure of another. The value of any fubftance is ufually computed in money, familiar to the owner, of which, as of weights and measures, there are two kinds, real and imaginary. Real money, weights and measures are fuch as are known by fight or their real intrinfic value, gravity or capacity; as, a dollar, pound, gallon, &c. and their real divifions. Imaginary money, weights and measures are fuch as are known only in imagination, of which there are no real standard, and are used only in computation; as, a £, Cwt, Chaldron, &c. in America. Courfe of Exchange is the current price of the money of one country in another, and is fometimes more, and fometimes less than its juft value; of this course there are ufually tables published daily in commercial cities, (commonly favorable to their citizens.) Par is the juft rate or course of exchange, found by comparing the money of one country with that of another, estimating each at its intrinfic value; at which rate the following tables of exchange are principally calculated; but the changeable fituation of the money of feveral countries render it impoffible to afcertain the true par. To exchange the Coins, Weights and Measures of one country to thofe of any other. RULE. Multiply the given fum by the proportion which that Coin, Weight or Measure bears to the one which is required, and the product is the answer. If the number to be reduced be a compound, ufe the -proportion between the highest denomination given and the denomination to which it is to be reduced, and proceed as with compound numbers and the fmail denominations of the an fwer will be of the fame divifion of the given number; or reduce all to the fame denomination; or find the value of each denomination feverally, & their fum will be the answer. TABLES OF EXCHANGE, In which the proportions between the United States' currency and those of most of the kingdoms and provinces of the world, are given. Change 42 £16s 6 d to S. | Change 454,4 $ to sterling. HAMBURG, BREMEN, LUBEc, altona, &c. 12 deniers or 2 grotes 1 fhilling lub or ftiver of Hamburg. Hamburg, 16 fhillings lubs or ftivers-1 mark banco, of 1/3210+10 331 12 240 3 marks 1 rix dollar of Hamburg, 24 marks or 72 grotes 1 rix dollar of Bremen, 100 75 2 trilings 1 sexling.,86.cts 2 sexlin, s I fenning, 1,74 c. 2 marks 1 selt dollar, 66 666 c. 4 marks 1 silver ducatoon, 133,333 c. 6 marks 1 ducat 208,333 c NOTE. The bank money is more valuable than the current money of Hamburg by 20 or 25 per cent, or the agio. 280 pounds=1 fhippound of Hamburg-3003 lb avordupois. 1 pound in Bremen- lb avor. 1 ell yard in U.S. 1 ring of staves=240.. the Bremen last=80 bushels in U. S. HOLLAND AND ZEALAND, AMSTERDAM, ROTTERDAM, Middleburg, flUSHING, &c. 16 pennnigens or 2 grotes 1 guilder or florin 40 c D. 100 Cts. 2 to S. A. 1, S 13 1 100 1 stiver, =2 cts. 6 stivers 1 scalin, 12 c. 1 rix dollar 100 c. 1 dry guilder 120 c I ducat 210 c. 1 silver ducatoon 120 c 1 gold ducat 800 c. 1 sovereign 600c. 1 lb in Amfterdam-13 lb Avor. 1 ell 200 COPENHAGEN, BERGEN, &c. yard. DENMARK. $. Cts. 16 skillings or 2 druggens=1 marc=16,666 cts marc, 20.833 c. 1 bat ducat 233,333 c ཊུ་ ༢ 1 pound 20 Isp=1 fhippound 20 skellings 1 rix 1 cucat 183,333 c. Reduce 40 lbs to avor, x 41.66 100 96 13 fhipp 8 Ifp. 4 lbs. at 100 In Holstein and Sleswick 1 rix dolla Specie dollar of Holstein and Sleswick 3 3 marks current of Hamburg, marks 12 d. current. FLANDERS, NETHERLANDS. PARIS, LYONS, MARSEILLES, BOURDEAUX, DUNKIRK, LISTE, 15 deniers 1 petard,-1,15 cts. 20 petards or 1 peittes 1 florin, 22,14 c. 6 livres 1 ecu or 1 crown, 110 cts. 10 livres 1 pistole, 185 c. 1 ducat 1944 c. 1 louis d or 444,4 c. 1 guinea 466.2 c. 1 moeda 638 c. 1 gram 15,444 grains troy. 10000 grams 1 myriogram .22 lb. 1 oz. 15 dr. avor. 1 decaliter-2 gallons 148,28 cubic inches. 1 meter 39,371 inches in U. S. SPAIN. MADRID, CADIZ, SEVILLE, MALAGA, BILBOA, BARCELONA, SARAGOSSA, VALENCIA, &C. 34 maravadies or 81 quartos = 1 real or rial of plate, 10 cents. 10 reals of plate-1 Spanish dollar, 100 cents. 32 reals of velon 170 cents. 17 reals of plate-1 piftole of exchange 20 reals velon=1 dollar of plate in Cadiz,=106,25 = 2 reals of plate-1 pistarine, 20 cents. 1 soldo 6,24 c. 1 libra 125 c. of exchange 110,295 c. 1 pistole of velon and old plate 372 c. In the provinces of Catalonia livres, sols and deniers are used as the money of account. 25 lb 1 Spanish arobe. 1 lb of Spain= 37 lb in U. S. 1 velt W. gln. 1 fanague-1,52 bufhel. I vara 1,08 15 yds in U. S. PORTUGAL. LISBON, OPORTO, COIMBRA, &c. 20 reas or rez=1 vintin or vinten, 2,5 cents. 1000 reas or 50 vintens 1 millrea or milre, 125 cents. 100 reas or 5 vintens 1 testoon, 4 testoons 1 crusade of exchange 60 c. 48 testoons 1 moidore, 600 c. 12,5 cents. 10 testoons 1 milrea. 50 c 24 vintins 1 new crusade, 64 testoons1 joanese 800 c. 32 lb-1 arobe, 33 lb in U. S. 4 arobes 1 quintal 132 lb. 12 canadoes=1 almude,44 W. glns. 60 alquieres or 15 fangas1 moy, 24 bushels. 1 vara 43 inches, 1 covedo=263 inches, in U.S. ITALY. GENOA, ISLE OF CORSICA, Novi, St. Remo, &c. 12 denari 1 foldi,,796 cts. 20 foldi 1 pezzo or lire, 15,926 cts. 5 lires 1 pezzo of exchange, 92,593 c. 5 francs S |