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The Nineteenth-Century Gold ‘Mithqal’ in West and North Africa*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Marion Johnson
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One of the units in which prices and exchange-rates are expressed by nineteenth-century travellers is the gold mithqal. This paper is an attempt to discover, and if possible to make some sense of, the various values of the gold mithqal at different times and places in West and North Africa during the nineteenth century.

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The Journal of African History , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 547 - 569
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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