A single colonel’s uniform cost 60,000 piastres.
Evidence
85 A colonel’s costume was reported to cost 60,000 piastres; see David Nicolle, “Nizam – Egypt’s army in the nineteenth century,” Pt. I, The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal 108 (1978), p. 70. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 1044
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- CANDY: A single uniform costing 60,000 piastres is a stunning sum — great trivia about military extravagance.
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