Irish gold pistole, bearing its weight (4 dwt 7 gr) (National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History)
A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, 1⁄20 of a troy ounce, 1⁄240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce[1] and exactly 1.55517384 grams.[2] It is abbreviated dwt, d standing for denarius – (an ancient Roman coin), and later used as the symbol of an old British penny (see £sd).
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Calculated using the relationships:
1 avoirdupois ounce = 437.50 grains,
1 troy ounce = 480 grains.
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Calculated using the relationship
1 troy grain = 0.06479891 gram (exact by definition).
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