Definition

• A money of account formerly used at Bengal. Stavornimis, in his Voy- ages to the East Indies, 1798 (i. 460), says: "For change they make use of the small sea-shells called cowries, eighty of which make a poni, and sixty or sixty-five ponis, according as there are few or many cowries in the country, make a Rupee." See Poon.

Quelle

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

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