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Cash was a currency unit of Madras Province during the period of British rule in India. Specifically, it was a subunit of the fanam, rupee, and pagoda. 80 cash = 1 fanam; 12 fanams = 1 rupee; 42 fanams = 1 pagoda; Copper coins of 20 cash were called pice, 10 cash were called dodees, and 5 cash were called half dodees. [3]
In 1913, John Maynard Keynes writes in his book Indian Currency and Finance that during the financial year 1900–1901, gold coins (sovereigns) worth £6,750,000 were given to the Indian people in the hope that they would circulate as currency. But against the expectation of the Government, not even half of that was returned to accounts.
East India Company, Madras Presidency. The fanam (or panam [1] in the local language of Tamil) was a currency issued by the Madras Presidency until 1815. It circulated alongside the Indian rupee, also issued by the Presidency. The fanam was a small silver coin, subdivided into 80 copper cash, with the gold pagoda worth 42 fanams. The rupee was ...
The Indian rupee was the official currency of Dubai and Qatar until 1959, when India created a new Gulf rupee (also known as the "external rupee") to hinder the smuggling of gold. [14] The Gulf rupee was legal tender until 1966, when India significantly devalued the Indian rupee and a new Qatar-Dubai riyal was established to provide economic ...
Around that time, coins were also being produced for the East India Company at the Madras mint. The Tamil the word for money is kaasu, [3] which may have been modified into 'cash'. Both words, 'kaasu' and 'cash', have the same meaning, unlike money box. The currency at the company's Bombay and Bengal administrative regions was the rupee.
International dollar – hypothetical currency pegged 1:1 to the United States dollar; Jamaican dollar – Jamaica; Kiautschou dollar – Qingdao; Kiribati dollar – Kiribati; Liberian dollar – Liberia; Malaya and British Borneo dollar – Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, British North Borneo and Brunei; Malayan dollar – Brunei, Malaysia and ...
In December 1672, the East India Company started a mint in Bombay and European style gold, silver, copper, and tin coins were struck. The gold coin was named Carolina, the silver coin Anglina, the copper Copperoon, and the tin coin called the Tinny. The exchange rate was set at 11 Tiduckone Copperoon and 48 Copperoons to one Anglina.
From 1957 to 1964, the paisa was called naya paisa (transl. 'new paisa') to distinguish it from the old paisa/pice which was a 1 ⁄ 64 subdivision of the Indian Rupee. On 1 June 1964, the term "naya" was dropped and the denomination was named paisa. Paisa has been issued in 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 20, 25, and 50 paise coins.