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Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 |
170 YARKAND AND KARGHALIK [CHAP. x.
honoured reckoning in ' Tangas ' and ' Puls.' Each of the little square Chinese coppers known in Turkestan as ` Dachins' is reckoned in Kashgar and Yarkand as equal to two Puls, and
LIU-DARIN, AMBAN OF YARKAND.
twenty-five of them make up a Tanga. The Khotan Tanga is worth twice as much as the Kashgar Tanga.
Coins representing this local unit of value there are none ;
so all sums have to be converted into Miskals, the smallest
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