Miskal


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Miskal

A Turkish measure of weight approximately equivalent to 0.312 grams. It became obsolete when Turkey made the metric system mandatory in 1933.
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A ruby weighing 450 miskals or nearly 2 kilograms was found in one of the temples.
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(1) Nisab for gold was equal to 20 Miskals and Nisab for silver was 200 dirhams, which were equivalent to 140 Miskals in weight.
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