Note 260 — JUDAR[257] AND HIS BRETHREN.
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
The coin is omitted in the text but it is evidently the “Nusf” or half-dirham. Lane (iii. 235), noting that the dinar is worth 170 “nusfs” in this tale, thinks that it was written (or copied?) after the Osmanh Conquest of Egypt. Unfortunately he cannot tell the precise period when the value of the small change fell so low.