Note 3 — Chapter I · GEOGRAPHICAL POSITION AND EXTENT OF WALLACHIA AND MOLDAVIA—HISTORICAL REMARKS FROM THE DECLINE OF THE DACIANS TO THE LAST CENTURY.
Reading edition
Knolles’s History of Turkey, p. 204. and Tounousli’s, Ισορια Ιης βλαχιας, p. 247.
A piaster and a half is equal to an English shilling.