Note 7 — Chapter II · HISTORY.
Reading edition
Accounts, it would appear, are kept in current piastres of Egypt, each piastre being equivalent to forty paras. Fifteen and a half or sixteen piastres are = one Spanish dollar; hence one piastre = three pence halfpenny of English money, and five paras would, therefore, be about one halfpenny English. For further information vide Encyclopædia Britanica, vol. iii. Article Egypt.