Definition

• 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."

Source

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

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