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  • Another activity will be a game that reveals the presence in little Cornelia's life of global trade, in the form of the Spanish pesos, Arabian sultani, Dutch ducats, Massachusetts shillings and even Indian wampum that the child would have seen being used as money in her mother's shop.

    Louise Mirrer: Reading a Mother's Day Card From 300 Years Ago Louise Mirrer 2011

  • Another activity will be a game that reveals the presence in little Cornelia's life of global trade, in the form of the Spanish pesos, Arabian sultani, Dutch ducats, Massachusetts shillings and even Indian wampum that the child would have seen being used as money in her mother's shop.

    Louise Mirrer: Reading a Mother's Day Card From 300 Years Ago Louise Mirrer 2011

  • He had the sultani gold coins debased and reduced in size in response to increased competition with multinational currencies in the Mediterranean.

    1682, April 10 2001

  • But the worst of the journey was the wayside villages -- dirty beyond belief, governed in a crude way by a headman whom the Germans honored with the title of sultani.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Evidently warning had been sent out broadcast, for the inhabitants of village after village came trooping into town to watch, each lot led by its sultani in filthy rags and the foolish imitation crown his conquerors had supplied him at several times its proper price.

    The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Strangely enough he did not mention the ivory stockade, nor did he attempt either to trade or to determine whether or not the _sultani_ knew its value.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • This is a very great _sultani_ -- very great indeed -- a _sultani_ whose spears are like the leaves of grass.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • The _sultani_ duly appeared the next morning; women brought in firewood and products of the country to trade; all was well.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • After the departure of the _sultani_ Kingozi took a bath and changed his clothes.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

  • About sundown the _sultani_ would depart, followed shortly by the last straggler of his people.

    The Leopard Woman Stewart Edward White 1909

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