Shroffed Money 上市 Deposited
Is such as has been submitted to experts, called "shroffs, " or "surrafs, " whose duty it was to detect the counterfeits or pieces of inferior weight.
The custom was resorted to in the Far East as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, and Beveridge, in his History of India, 1862 (i. 592), states that Lord Clive represented that "the money could not be divided till it was shroffed. "
T. Brooks, in Coins of the East Indies, 1766 (49), cites an expense account: "Brokerage, one and one half per cent. Shroffage, one per thousand. " See Soolakie.
- Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)