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0222 Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1
Sand-Buried Ruins of Khotan : vol.1 / Page 222 (Color Image)

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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