Définition

• A silver coin of the Ottoman Empire of the value of two Piastres or eighty Paras. Its weight varies from 390 to 480 grains. The name is derived from iki, i.e., two.

  The issues for Tunis, which appeared under Mahmud I (A.H. 1143-1168), are of billon, and valued at only two Paras. See Fonrobert, Die Jules Fonrobert'sche Sammlung uberseeischer Munzen. 1878. (5316)

La source

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

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