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1 to 1£ pel’ cent. Copper coin is still in circulation at the rate of 61 puls
per kran. It is said that there is here up to 10,000 tomans of copper coin,
gtill in circulation'. Nickel coin, of which 3,000 tomans we»e put in
circulation in Kermanshah two years ago is readily accepted, and in the
Villages preferred to copper.
Bef> re the establishment of the Government Mint in Teheran, Kerman
shah had a Mint of its own. The coin turned out here was fairly good.
From assays made by Herr Pec' an we see that Kermanshah k ans of
1866 A. D., 128$ A.H., gave the following results :—weight, 497 grains,
fineness 880, value in francs O’yTiO. The Kermanshah kraus, being better
than the average krans from other Persian Mints, have nearly all been
ie-minted. Most of the coin in this part of Persia is spoiled by the Kurds
boring holes through it to make ornaments for their wives and daughters.
There is a great movement of specie in Kermanshah, and large amounts
of specie are weekly sent to Teheran. Notwithstanding these remittances
coin accumulates here, being brought by the pilgrims or passed Irom hand
to hand, from village, to village until it is finally brought to town for the
purchase of clothing, &c.
Charcoal Kermanshah is supplied with charcoal by the
Lurs.
Weights, Me\suues anu Coinagb.
The unit of weight in Kertnanshah is the maund tabrizi.
1 maund tabrizi ••• ••• ~ 610 mi seals or 2,967 kilos. ... 6 o4 lbs.
1 maund no-abbassi ... = 800 miscals or maund tabrizi.
1 maund shah ... ... — 1,280 miscals or 2 maunds tabrizi.
Maund, ujftnn or batman are one and the same thing.
1 nakhod ... ... ... ••• = 4 gandums.
1 misoal ... ... ... ... - 24 nakhwli
10 sirs ... ... »»• *»» — 1 cheiek.
4 cherek ••• ... ••• “ 1 m tund.
100 maund ... ... ••• ... ^ 1 kharvar.
The unit of length is the zar ahaki, which I make out to be 1 metro 3J centimetres, or
about 10 inches. .
2 bars ... ... ... = ^ gueh^
4 gireh ... ••« ••• •»» ••• — 1 cheiek.
4 cherek... ... •»* ... = 1 zar.
1 farsakh is equal nominally to 6,000 zars shahi.
A maidan is a quarter of a farsakh.
Jult is the superficies ploughed by a pair of oxen.
This is an undetermined measure, which varies according to the nature of
the land.
Gardens and ground in town are sold by the zar, gardens sometimes by
the Djerrib = 1 , 006 square zavs.
Coinage—
20 shah is • ••
10 krans ...
• ••
t • •
• ft
• » •
• 19
• M
— 1 kran.
= 1 toman.
Copper coinage.—There is still a certain amount of the old copper coinage in circulation
at the rate of 52 shahis per kran.
Thel £ T. gold is sold in the bazars at from 50 to 52§ krans.
The Turkish Consulate reckon the 1 £ T. for passport purposes at 55 krans.
* The kharvai is usually taken at 6oO lbs. in order to faciliate calculation.