sicca rupee
English
Noun
sicca rupee (plural sicca rupees)
- (now historical) A newly-minted rupee, having a higher value than those in long use; later (specifically), a rupee coined by the Bengal Government from 1793.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 215:
- For this house we agreed to pay three hundred sicca rupees, or thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, a month.
- 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 215:
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