Crossword-Solution: SAPEKS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The Tartars can weigh, but cannot calculate, and accordingly the bank-teller of Blue Town, after gravely consulting his _souan-pan_ (exchange-table), announced the value to be about a thousand _sapeks_ less than it should have been.

Only just before they had been offered 1200 sapeks for them! As we did not want boots, we replied that we could not have them at any price.

The Chinese carmen, stationed up yonder beyond Tchortchi, wanted to buy my game for four hundred sapeks, but I said No! But to you, Sirs Lamas, I speak not as to Kitat; there is my roebuck: give me what you please for it.” We told Samdadchiemba to pay the hunter five hundred sapeks and hanging the venison over the neck of one of the camels, we proceeded on our way.

The ordinary value of the ounce of silver is 1,700 or 1,800 sapeks, according to the scarcity or abundance of silver in the country.

When they come to reduce the silver into sapeks, they do indeed reduce it, making the most flagrant miscalculations, which the Tartars, who can count nothing beyond their beads, are quite incapable of detecting, and which they, accordingly, adopt implicitly, and even with satisfaction, always considering they have sold their bullion well, since they know the full weight has been allowed, and that the full market price has been given.