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'''Cash''' is a name for several historical [[currencies]] used in [[Asia]]. It is applied to units used in [[China]], [[Vietnam]], and of [[Madras Province|Madras]] and [[Princely state]] of [[Travancore]] in [[British India]]. It is also occasionally used to refer to the [[Korean mun]] and the [[Japanese mon (currency)|Japanese mon]].

[[Sanskrit|Skr.]] ''karsha'' 'a weight of silver or gold equal to {{frac|400}} of a tulā' (Williams); [[Sinhalese language|Singhalese]] ''kāsi'' coin. The early [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] writers represented the native word by ''cas, casse, caxa,'' the [[French language|Fr.]] by ''cas'', the Eng. by ''cass'': the existing [[Portuguese language|Pg.]] ''caixa'' and Eng. cash are due to a natural confusion with [[cash|CASH n.1]]. From an early date the Portuguese applied ''caixa'' (probably on the same analogy) to the small money of other foreign nations, such as that of [[Maritime Southeast Asia]], and especially the Chinese, which was also naturally made into cash in English. (Yule)"<ref>{{OED|
Cash, n.²}}</ref> The English word "[[cash]]," meaning "tangible currency," is an older word from [[Middle French]] ''caisse''.<ref>{{cite web | author=Douglas Harper | year=2001 | url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=cash | title=Online Etymology Dictionary | accessdate=2007-04-11}}</ref>

==Chinese cash==
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In China, ''cash'' - not to be confused with [[cash (Chinese coin)|the type of copper coin]] - refers to a unit used for centuries for copper coinage and banknote equivalents known as ''wén'' (文). Being the first country to implement paper based currency, in 1023 the [[Jiaozi (currency)|交子]] paper money currency occur to adapt the economical climate change of globalization brought by [[fair trade]] via [[silk road]], although metal coins were still in circulation. After the introduction of a unified currency system in 1889, cash continued to be used as a subunit of the [[Chinese yuan|yuan]] with 1000 cash being equal to one yuan. Coins continued to be denominated in cash until the 1920s nationally and for a time thereafter regionally.

==Vietnamese cash==
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Cash (''văn'') was a currency unit for copper coinage in Vietnam until the introduction of the [[French Indochina piastre]] in 1885 when it became a sub unit of the piastre usually known as a ''sapèque''.

==Madras cash==
{{see also|Madras fanam}}
Cash was a currency unit of [[Madras Province]] during the period of [[British rule in India]]. Specifically, it was a subunit of the [[Madras fanam|fanam]], [[rupee]], and [[pagoda (coin)|pagoda]].

*80 cash = 1 fanam
*12 fanams = 1 rupee
*42 fanams = 1 pagoda

Copper coins of 20 cash were called [[paisa|pice]], 10 cash were called '''dodee'''s, and 5 cash were called half dodees.<ref>[[Robert Montgomery Martin]]. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=yDQGAAAAMAAJ History of the Colonies of the British Empire].'' London: W. H. Allen, 1843. p. 342.</ref>

==Travancore cash==
{{see also|Travancore rupee}}
Travancore cash was similar to the Madras cash yet differed in the value compared to the rupee.

*16 cash = 1 chakram
*4 chakram = 1 fanam
*7 fanam = 1 rupee

thus, 1 rupee = 448 cash.<ref>{{cite book| title=Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series, Madras II: The Southern and West Coast Districts, Native States, and French Possessions|page= 419|year=1908| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hI1kfvUKUiAC }}</ref>

==Notes==
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==See also==
*[[Cash (Chinese coin)]]
*[[List of English words of Persian origin]]

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