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unusual facts about troy ounce



Fijian gold pacific sovereign

The Fijian gold Pacific Sovereign is a 24-karat, bullion, one-ounce gold coin of .9999 purity minted by the New Zealand Mint (first released mid-2009) in commemoration of the islands of Fiji, a sovereign nation and member (albeit a suspended member as of 2006) of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Five Punishments

The scale of the remittance payments can be gauged from the fact that at the time of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–1795 CE), the average wage of a construction laborer in Zhili Province was 0.72 wén or 0.6 troy ounces of silver per day.


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