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foreign traffic with wheat; and availed themfelves of thevery high eftimation, in which the Tartars hold a genuineMahometan coin: fo that, even after its value had been raifedtwenty-two per cent. under the prefent Sultan, it ftill main-tained the fuperiority (in exchange for fmall coin and paper-currency) over the Ruflian filver money; the intrinfic value ofwhich exceeded that of the Turks, upwards of twenty-two percent. The Yüßik (which is equivalent to two piaftres and aa half) had rifen to one ruble and three-fourths, nay, even toa ruble and four-fifths; the Kilik to one hundred and fixtykopeeks; the Mtmyßlik to one hundred and fifteen kopeeks;and the Gruuß> y or Lew, to feventy kopeeks; but, in the fub-fequent years, when the exportation of com was for fome timeprohibited, the Yüflik feil to one ruble and a half; the Kilikto a ruble and two-fifths; the Altmyfhlik to ninety, and theLew to fixty kopeeks. As this rate ftill exceeds the intrinficvalue of the coin, and the Altmyfhlik, according to an accurateaflay, does not contain more than forty-four Solotnik and five-fixths of fine metal, and is exactly worth fixty-three kopeeksand a quarter; the Government at length, in the year 1797,fixed the value at which the Turkifh coins fhould be received inpayments; namely, the Yüflik at feventy-four kopeeks and ahalf; the Kilik at fixty-three and a half; the Altmyfhlik atfifty; and the Gruufh, which is of a better ftandard, at fifty-five kopeeks.

Occafionally, Anatolian copper has alfo been introduced intothe Crimea, on account of the Government. Thus, it was formerlyimported for the mint there eftablifhed (and which was droppedin the commencement of the laft war with Turkey, after a

quantity