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

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

Ancient history · Archaeology · Economic history · Ethnology · Geography · Gold coast · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History

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