Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The monetary unit of Persia and a current coin, valued at ⅞10 United States cents or one tenth of a toman.
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Examples
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Gregorian, p. 402, divides the Kabuli rupee as follows for the nineteenth century: 10 dinars to 1 paisa; 5 paisas to 1 copper shahi; 2 shahis to 1 silver sannar or sadinar or misqali; 2 sannar to 1 abbasi or tanga; 1.5 abbasi to 1 kran (qiran); 2 krans to 1 rupee; 2/5 rupees to 1 nim sanad; 5 rupees to one sanad; 20 rupees to 1 toman.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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I returned the compliment and told her that she made my kran hurt.
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I returned the compliment and told her that she made my kran hurt.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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I, too, might go with them on paying fifty _kran_ for the hire of a mule; food and drink I must provide for myself.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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"Well, then, pay us ten _kran_ apiece, and you shall pass the frontier all the same."
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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When I reached Baghdad I had only a little over £5 left, all in Persian silver _kran_, a _kran_ being worth about seven-pence; and I could not get any more money until I reached Teheran, 600 miles away.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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He consented to accompany me if I paid him twenty-five _kran_ a day.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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To avoid further unpleasantness I went to the governor, who for six _kran_ gave me a passport.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Weight in pure gold; toman, 51.7572; half-toman, 26.3736; two-kran piece, 10.54944.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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The new coins are the two-tomans, one-toman (differentiated in 1879 and subsequent to 1879), half-toman and two-kran pieces, the gold having a legal fineness of 900.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
hernesheir commented on the word kran
Persian monetary unit/coin.
November 30, 2010