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 Quarters of an Ounce, or common which is six thousand Drams, and worth  hundred and eighty-seven Pounds ten Shillings

The King's Talent weighed three thousand the King's Shekels, which is nine thousand  and worth two hundred and eighty one  and five Shillings

The Talent of the Temple weighed thousand Shekels of the Temple, which is  thousand, five hundred Ounces and comes  three hundred and seventy five Pounds.

A Silvering, or piece of Silver often mentioned is worth two ShillingssShillings [sic] and Six-pence.

The common Shekel of Gold is two and worth fifteen Shillings.

The King's Shekel of Gold is three Drams, worth one Pound two Shillings and Six pence

The Shekel of Gold of the Temple is Drams or Half an Ounce, and worth one  ten Shillings.

The common Talent of Gold is worth thousand two hundred and fifty Pounds.

The King's Talent of Gold is worth thousand three hundred and seventy-five Pounds.

The Talent of Gold of the Sanctuary is worth four thousand five hundred Pounds,

The Jews had another Weight called Mina not of so much Use as the other; the  Mina of Silver which is six Drams, or  seven Shillings and Six pence

The King's Mina being eighty Drams, is Shillings.

The Mina of the Temple is one hundred that is, three Pounds, two Shillings and Six

There is likewise a Gerah, which is one Halfpenny.