The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.

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Title: The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
Author: Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.; Coinage -- Early works to 1800.; Exchange -- Early works to 1800.; Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.; Great Britain -- Commerce.
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CHAP. CCLXXXIII. Of the Exchanges of Venice in the Adriatick Seas.

* 1.1IN Venetia they keep their Accounts in Livres, Sols, and Deniers of Picol, and some in Livres, Sols, and Deniers gross, and others in Ducats and Grosses. The Moneys which here is called Picoli, is the current Moneys of the place. The Moneys which we here call Gross, is worth 1 Livre, Sol. 62 of Picols, or 10 Ducats. The Ducat is always worth Livres 6. Sol. 4. of Picol, or else accounted 24 Grosses. The Gross is worth Sol. 5. 2 d. of Picol, and in the Livre of Grosses it is accounted and reckoned as in Deniers.

In the Custom of Exchanging it giveth the broken Number only to Placentia, Lions, Genoua, Millan and Bollonia, and to all the rest, the whole Number, either by one Ducat, or by 100 Ducats.

Venetia doth exchange with	Placentia	Ducats	129	for	100 Crowns
Lions	Ducats	129½	100 Crowns
Rome	Ducats	100	77½ Ducats
Geno.	Liv. Pic. Ducats 7. 10	1 Crown of 4 Liv. current
Mill.	Liv. Pic. 7. 6 5	1 Crown of 117 Sol.
Florence	Ducats	100	82 Crowns
Naples	Ducats	100	100 Ducates
Lechi	Ducats	100	100¼ Ducats
Bari	Ducats	100	99¼ Ducats
Palermo	Ducat	1	Tarins 11. 2
Mesina	Ducat	1	Tarins 10. 18.
Antw. & Col.	Ducat	1	91 Grosses
London	Ducat	1	60 d. sterling.
Valentia	Ducat	1	Sol. 7 6.
Saragosa	Ducat	1	Sol. 17 8.
Barcellona	Ducat	1	Sol. 17 10.
Siv. al. Med.	Ducat	1	Marvedes 320.
Lisbon	Ducat	1	Rates 350.
Bollonia	Ducats	115	Ducatoons 100.
Bergamo	Ducats	100	Ducatoons 117.
Frankford	Ducats	100	Florins 127.
Lucca	Ducats	100	Ducatoons 91.

Vide Chap. 368. how these are calculated

Notes

* 1.1

The Exchan∣ges of Venice.

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