Numerous coins, weights, and measures are mentioned in the Dutch records, many of them undoubtedly unfamiliar to either the general reader or the historian. A list of such terms and their values was prepared by A. J. F. van Laer and included as an appendix to The Van Rensselaer Manor Bowier Manuscripts published 1909. However, in the thirty years following publication of that work, Mr. van Laer uncovered much additional information which he noted in his copy of the book. The following charts incorporate material selected both from the original list and from the annotations. It should be noted that there were no universal standards in the seventeenth century, as is evident from several of the following terms for which Mr. van Laer cites numerous variations in value.

Coins

Penning	1/16 stuiver
denier	1/12 stuiver
oortje/oortie	2 duiten, 1/4 stuiver
duit	1/8 stuiver
groot	1/2 stuiver
stuiver, stuyver, stiver	1/20 guilder
Brabantse stuiver	24 pennings
stooter	5 groots
real	1/8 piece-of-eight, 6 stuivers, 1 schelling
schelling	6 stuivers or 12 groots or 1 real
pond Hollands	15 stuivers
guilder or florin	20 stuivers or 40 groots
Carolus guilder	11/2 guilders
daelder	11/2 guilders
rijksdaelder, rixdollar	21/2 guilders
piece-of-eight	2.4 guilders or 48 stuivers or 8 reals or 8 schellings
ducaton	3 guilders plus 3 stuivers
pond Vlaamsch, pond groot, "Flemish pound"	6 guilders or 20 schellings; 1 York pound

Weight

Linear Measures

Rhinelandse duim	1.03 inches or 0.026 meters
Amsterdamse duim	1.013 inches
Rhinelandse voet	12 duimen, 12.36 inches, or 0.3139 meters
Amsterdamse voet	11 duimen or 11.143 inches
ell	27 inches
vadem, "fathom"	6 feet
Rhinelandse roede	12 voeten, 12.36 feet, or 3.7674 meters
Amsterdamse roede	13 voeten, 12.071 feet, or 3.6807 meters
uurgaans, zeemijl	1/20 degree; 3 nautical miles; 18,261 feet; 1,500 Rhineland rods; 5555 meters Van Laer quotes one source which gives the Holland mile as 5.556 kilometers and the uurgaans as 5.651 kilometers. He also mentions an old Dutch mile of 5358 meters.
geographische mijl	1/15 degree; 4 nautical miles; 4,611 Statute miles; 24,348 feet
	Van Laer cites from various sources figures in meters of 7420, 7407.41, and "about 7407."

Square Measures

Rhinelandse morgen	600 square roeden; 2.103 acres
Amsterdamse morgen	600 square roeden; 2.069 acres
schepel	The land that can be sown with a schepel or rye.
mudde	In the western part of Drenthe the word mudde is used as a square measure of land, equaling 212 and 1/4 square roeden; elsewhere, 160 square roeden.

Liquid Measures

Dry Measures

mutsje	1/4 liter
schepel	0.764 bushel wheat; 1.29 bushels salt
zak	3 schepels or 2.292 bushels wheat
mudde, mud	4 schepels or 3.056 bushels wheat
vat	4 schepels or 5.16 bushels salt
last	36 zakken, 27 mudden, or 82.512 bushels wheat; 108 schepels
last of salt	28 heaped up wheelbarrows' full
ship's last	3.72 cubic yards, 100.17 cubic feet, or 21/2 tons burden
smalton	1/12 last or 6.876 bushels wheat
honderd	704.32 bushels salt
hoed, hoet	33.25 bushels coal
spint	1/4 schepel
vim, vinne	104 to 108 sheaves