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Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

Note 172 — THE STORY OF THE THREE SHARPERS.[17] (continued 3)

Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2

In the text (iii. 260) “Mídí,” a clerical error for “Mayyidí,” an abbreviation of “Muayyadí,” the Faddah, Nuss or half-dirham coined under Sultan al-Muayyad, A.H. ixth cent. = A.D. xvth.

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