shroffage
noun/ˈʃɹɒfɪd͡ʒ/
Etymology From shroff (“to examine coin for debasement etc.”) + -age (“forming nouns regarding a rate or charge”).
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Historical The commission paid to a shroff for examining coins for quality.
- Shraffage is halfe a riall per every thousand rialls.1629, cited in William Foster, The English Factories in India, page 354
- Brokerage 1½ per Cent. Shroffage 1 per Thousand.1766, Thomas Brooks, An Authentick Account of All the Different Coins... by Which Accompts in the East Indies Are Kept, page 49: