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The Nineteenth-Century Gold ‘Mithqal’ in West and North Africa*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2009
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One of the units in which prices and exchange-rates are expressed by nineteenth-century travellers is the gold mithqal. This paper is an attempt to discover, and if possible to make some sense of, the various values of the gold mithqal at different times and places in West and North Africa during the nineteenth century.
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