Cecchine Öffentlichkeit Deposited
A corruption of Zecchino (q.v.) and conf. Checquin and Chickino, infra.
Ben Jonson, in his play Volpone. 1605 (i. 3), uses the phrase " When euery word ... is a cecchine."
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)