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Page 54
... says is , that what he calls the silver dínár of India is the 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 ...
... says is , that what he calls the silver dínár of India is the 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 ...
Page 55
... says it was equal to three mithcals ( ordinary dínárs ? ) . The former says again that the silver dínár of India was equivalent to eight dirhems , and that " this dirhem was absolutely equivalent to the dirhem of silver " ( iv , 210 ) ...
... says it was equal to three mithcals ( ordinary dínárs ? ) . The former says again that the silver dínár of India was equivalent to eight dirhems , and that " this dirhem was absolutely equivalent to the dirhem of silver " ( iv , 210 ) ...
Page 56
... says that 23 to 25 diremi went to the Bizant or dínár . In Syria in the following century we find Uzzano to state that the dínár was worth thirty dirhems ; and perhaps this may have been the case in Egypt at an earlier date . For ...
... says that 23 to 25 diremi went to the Bizant or dínár . In Syria in the following century we find Uzzano to state that the dínár was worth thirty dirhems ; and perhaps this may have been the case in Egypt at an earlier date . For ...
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