Definition

• Mandelslo in his Voyage and Travels to the East Indies , 1669 (p. 8), under date of 1638 states that at Gombroon the native currency is a copper coin called the Besorg, " whereof six make a Peys, and ten Peys make a Shahi, which is worth about fivepence English. " This is prob- ably the same as the Bazarucco (q.v.).

Source

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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