 | Edward Thomas - 1874 - Страниц: 436
...observations. After mentioning the Portuguese copper "tangums," he adds: "There is another sort (of money) which all people by the king's permission may and do make ; the shape is like a fish-hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please ; the silver is purely fine beyond... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 332
...Tavernier found pieces of twisted wire called laris, [from the province of Lar in Persia] in general use as money, on the Malabar coast. Thunberg saw them likewise...oboli of the Greeks, which were nothing more than kabob-skewers— o/3eXo» — a handful of which or about six, made a drachma from SgaTTeiv '< to grasp... | |
 | 1914 - Страниц: 482
...in Laristan, but afterwards made in Ceylon. Captain Robert Knox says of it, " There is another sort, which all People by the King's Permission may and do make. The shape is like a fishhook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please " (Hist. Relation of Ceylon, 1681, p.... | |
 | 1914 - Страниц: 492
...in Laristan, but afterwards made in Ceylon. Captain Robert Knox says of it, " There is another sort, which all People by the King's Permission may and do make. The shape is like a fishhook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please " (Hist. Relation of Ceylon, 1681, p.... | |
 | Humphrey William Codrington - 1975 - Страниц: 326
...of the money in use in the Kardyan kingdom between 1659 and 1679, writes : " There is another sort, which all People by the King's Permission may and do make. The shape is like a fish-hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please. The silver is purely fine beyond pieces... | |
 | Thomas William Rhys Davids - 1996 - Страниц: 80
...observations. After mentioning the Portuguese copper " tangums," he adds : " There is another sort (of monev) which all people by the king's permission may and do make ; the shape is like a fish-hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please ; the silver is purely fiQe beyond... | |
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There is another sort, which all People by the King's Permission may and do make. The shape is like a fish-hook, they stamp what mark or impression on it they please. The Silver is purely fine beyond pieces of Eight. For if any suspect the goodness of... 