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... tangah of other authors , corresponding more or less to the coin which has been called rupee ( Rúpiya ) since the days of Sher Sháh ( 1540-5 ) , and that this silver coin was equal to one - fourth of the gold dínár of the West ( Maghrib ...
... tangah of other authors , corresponding more or less to the coin which has been called rupee ( Rúpiya ) since the days of Sher Sháh ( 1540-5 ) , and that this silver coin was equal to one - fourth of the gold dínár of the West ( Maghrib ...
Page 55
... Tangah beyond what we may call its normal value of two shillings . Thus Ibn Batuta tells us repeatedly that the gold Tangah ( of 10 silver dínárs or Tangahs ) was equal to 2 gold dínárs of Maghrib ( see i , 293 ; ii , 65 , 66 ; iii ...
... Tangah beyond what we may call its normal value of two shillings . Thus Ibn Batuta tells us repeatedly that the gold Tangah ( of 10 silver dínárs or Tangahs ) was equal to 2 gold dínárs of Maghrib ( see i , 293 ; ii , 65 , 66 ; iii ...
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... tangah and dinár , and also that the tangah was equal to ten dínárs . But as there seems some doubt about this I will here quote all the passages in which the terms are used so as to be of any value . ( I ) Tangah always means with Ibn ...
... tangah and dinár , and also that the tangah was equal to ten dínárs . But as there seems some doubt about this I will here quote all the passages in which the terms are used so as to be of any value . ( I ) Tangah always means with Ibn ...
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