Welcome Nugget
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The Welcome Nugget was a large gold nugget, weighing 2,217 troy ounces 16 pennyweight., that was discovered by a group of twenty-two Cornish miners at the Red Hill Mining Company site at Bakery Hill i
The "Welcome Nugget" replica at the Harvard Mineralogical Museum, USA.
Replica of Welcome Nugget at Museums Victoria
Pennyweight
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A pennyweight is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, 1⁄20 of a troy ounce, 1⁄240 of a troy pound, 48⁄875 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams. It is abbreviated dwt, d standing for denarius –
17th-century Irish weight, 8 dwt
Irish gold pistole, bearing its weight (4 dwt 7 gr) (National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History)
Silver half crown struck in Ireland c. 1642 with weight, 9dwt: 16gr (15 grams) stamped onto it.