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Abu-Mafta

The last word in Egyptian means a cannon, and this name was applied to the Spanish Piastre in Egypt, because the Pillars of Hercules on the reverse were mistaken for cannon.


Source: Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)
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