Cash Público Deposited
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.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)