pice

Be careful to distinguish the common coin called a pice from the units.

1

In India, 18^th – ? centuries, a unit of mass, varying with location.

Location	Equivalents	Magnitude in grams	Source
Aurungabundar	= ¼ anna = 1/64th seer	13.1705	1, 2
Bombay (Mumbai)	= 1/30th seer	10.5827	1,2, note 1
Calcutta*	= 1/192 sicca-rupee	0.6063	1
Cambay (Malabar coast)	= 1/30 seer	14.1103	1
Carwar (Malabar coast)	= 1/25 seer	11.1339	1, 2
Jaulnah (Deccan)	= 1/84 seer	10.8195	1
Kotah in Malwah	= 1/48 pye = 48 massa	17.9195	1, 2
Sindry	= ½ anna = 1/32 cutcha maund	13.2284	1, 2
Sindry	= ½ anna = 1/64 pucca maund	13.2284	2
Surat	old pice or paysa, = 1/30 seer	14.1733	1
Surat	new pice, = 1/42 seer	10.1238	1

1. Doursther 1840.

2. Kelly.

* See also definition 2.

sources

30 Pice, — — — — — — — — — — — are 1 Seer Bombay.
1 1/[denominator is illegible] Seer, — —— — 1 Pound English,
40 Seers or 28 lbs. — — —— — — — — — — 1 Maund,

The Bombay almanack.
Bombay: printed by John Turner, at the Gazette Press, [1798].
Page 117.

2

In Calcutta, a measure of capacity, = ¼ seer. Also called a pouah. For liquids, which were also sold by weight, 4 chattack = 1 pouah or pice.

Kelly. (page 89).