Geniza Lab

Fragment from the end of a contract, followed by a whole contract, both of which are between Avraham and Shalom and witnessed by the scribe Natan b. Avraham and Ḥayyim Ṭārīqa(?). The first contract, written during the Feast of Tabernacles 5304 (= 1544 CE) in Egypt, mentions the sum of 59.5 עתמאני (i.e. the Ottoman unit of currency). In the second contract, Shalom agrees to pay Abraham the same amount using gold peraḥim (ducat equivalents) from the coinage of Sultan Sulaymān. An exchange rate is given: every peraḥ is worth 59.5 ʿuthmānīs. (Information in part from CUDL.)