(1) One troy pound weighs 373.25 g and is subdivided into troy ounces, pennyweight and grains (gr, 24 in a pennyweight ).(2) Gold is measured using troy weights (as opposed to the more familiar avoirdupois weights): 24 grains make a pennyweight , and 20 pennyweights make a 31.1-gram troy ounce.(3) They are each to be of the value of half a cent, and to contain five pennyweights and a half a pennyweight of copper.(4) Both agreed there was gold - one suggesting up to two and a half ounces per ton of quartz, the other u2018equal to one ounce eleven pennyweights per ton.u2019(5) The measured weights of these nut spoons are nine and seven pennyweights , respectively, below the average weight of this piece.
