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Say- yid Muḥammad had made a loan of 12,000 fiḍḍa, a shorthand reference to the niṣf fiḍḍa, the standard Egyptian silver coin, to the Jewish merchant Muʿallim Shimʿūn Fransīs, an international trader who ran a Cairo-based commercial company with his part- ner, Mercado Karo.... […]
The current letter reveals that Muḥammad ʿAshrī had been mistaken: he himself had negotiated the 5,800-fiḍḍa loan, securing it with a deposit of obsolete coins: 100 Venetian gold ducats, or bunduqīs (recto l. 10)."
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- ملحق خير
- سلام الله تعالى ورحمته وبركاته وازكى تحياته نخص بذالك
After offering copious greetings to him—It is not hidden from you that before this date
we sent to inform you that you should take from Muʿallim
Shimʿūn Fransīs
12,000 fiḍḍa and 5,800 fiḍḍa
in large silver qurūsh, but this was an error.
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