Definition

• A copper coin struck by the French at Pondichery for Mahe on the Malabar Coast. It corresponds to the Pice and is the fifteenth part of a Fanam (q.v.). There are divisions of halves and quarters. See Zay, Histoire monetaire des colonies franchises . 1892. (p. 289).

Source

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

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