"ملاحظات عن الجيش الإيراني" [و‎‎٢‎٨] (٧٠/٥٥)

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APPENDIX L
Iranian Coinage, Weights and Measures.
1. Coinage.
The basic unit is rial which is subdivided into 100 dinars. 100
rials=\ pahlevi.
Under the Government control of foreign exchange, the rate was
fixed at 80 rials to the £ but this is no longer so.
The old kran is still in use, and is the equivalent to the rial.
2. Weights.
In theory, the metric system is in force, but as the older weights
and measures are so commonly alluded to, it is necessarv to describe
them.
The unit of weight was the miskdl (71-fi grains), subdivided into
24 nakhods (2-96 grains) of 4 yandom (-74 grain) each. Sixteen
miskdls make a sir, and 40 .sr-l batman (Tabriz). Most articles
are bought and sold by a weight called batman or man. This differs in
different parts of the country. The mans most frequently in use are :
Man-i- Tabriz =8 A bbdsis
=
640 Miskdl*
= 6-546 lbs.
Man-i-Nok- =9 Abbdsis
Abbasis.
=
720 „
= 7-30 lbs.
Man-i-Kohneh (the old man)
=
1,000
= 10 -14 lbs.
Man-i-Shah = 2 Tabriz mans
=
1,280
= 12-98 lbs.
Man-i-Rey—4 Tabriz Man*
=
2.560
= 25-96 lbs.
Man-i-Bandar Abbasi
=
840
= 8-52 lbs.
Man-i-Hashemi— 16 mans of
=
720
= 116-80 lbs.
Corn, straw, coal, etc., are sold by
= 654-64 lbs.
Kharvdr = 100
Tabriz Man*
34 Kharvars — 1,963-92 lbs.
= 1
short ton (very
nearly).