A measuring device used by merchants until the 19th century to check the weight of coins offered for payment in trade, instead of and sometimes alongside the old money stones. Traveling merchants usually wore the gold scale on their belt on the left side, as can be seen from numerous contemporary illustrations. – See alliage, tipper, curant coin, solder, pass weight.
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