heavyweight

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It weighed two pennyweights, worth less than $2 in coin value and not more than $5 as dental gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

This first piece of gold is now in the possession of Mrs. Weimer, and weighs six pennyweights eleven grains.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 17 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

You might give a gal a few pennyweights, or even an ounce, but when you say you hope you may find gold for her sake, ain’t that just a trifle flabby?

From The Tale of Timber Town by Grace, Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus)

To avoid even this opportunity for a legal tender, sometimes notes promised to pay a certain number of ounces and pennyweights, with interest at a fixed rate.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 by Various

In this weight the pound is divided into 12 ounces, the ounce into 20 pennyweights, and the pennyweight into 24 grains; hence, the troy ounce contains 480 grains, and the troy pound contains 5760 grains.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W by Project Gutenberg