Definizione

• The English word for the Hindu Kas or Kasu (q.v.). The word cash is used on the copper coins of Mysore about 1830 under Krishna Raja Udaiyar (1799- 1868). The inscriptions read XL cash, XXV CASH, XX CASH, X CASH, V CASH. The rare 2 1/2 , 6 1/4 and 12 1/2 cash pieces have the value in Kanarese numerals.

  Certain of the modern copper coins of Travancore have their values expressed in cash as well as a number of the copper coins of the British East India Co. In Sumatra it was a money of account and wort h about three cents.

Fonte

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

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