sicca rupee

English

Noun

sicca rupee (plural sicca rupees)

1. (now historical) A newly-minted rupee, having a higher value than those in long use; later (specifically), a rupee coined by the Bengal Government from 1793.
   • 1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 215:

     For this house we agreed to pay three hundred sicca rupees, or thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, a month.