zecchin

English

Alternative forms

• zechin
• zequin

Etymology

From Italian zecchino, from zecca ‘mint’, from Arabic سكّة (sikka) ‘die for coining, coin’. Compare sequin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛkɪn/

Noun

zecchin (plural zecchins)

1. (historical) Any of various gold coins produced in Italy or Turkey; a sequin.
   • 1820, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 9,^[1]

     […] the noble armour, that was worth so many zecchins to Joseph Pareira, the armourer of Milan, besides seventy in the hundred of profits, he cares for it as little as if he had found it in the highways!”