A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 / In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia

by James Justinian Morier

[124] Gibbon, vol. i. 4to. p. 331.

[125] Mirkhond, in De Sacy, p. 282-90.

[126] Khondemir, in Ancient Universal History, vol. xi. p. 151.

[127] Mirkhond, in De Sacy, p. 273.

[128] De Sacy, p. 42. A. C. 226, according to Vaillant: Tab. Chronol.

[129] Mirkhond, p. 282-6.

[130] This appears the piastre in value. “A piastre is about two shillings British.” “Average exchange between Persia and India, one hundred and thirty piastres for one hundred rupees.”

[131] “Containing two miscals, six hehod of silver. None of the coins that are struck in Persia have any alloy.”

[132] “The present shahee takes its name from the shahee of the Seffis, but has increased in value owing to the rise of silver. They have no coin of greater amount than the tomaun, except it be a very large piece which the King has struck for the luxury and magnificence of his own treasury, and which is equal to one thousand tomauns, or ten thousand piastres.”

[133] As there is some obscurity, the whole passage in the original is subjoined here: