ticaln.

in Thailand

/tɪˈkɑːl/in Burma

/ˈtɪk(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1700s tecul(l, tecal(l, teecall, 1800s tickal, tycal, takel, tackal(l.

Etymology: Representing, through Portuguese ticāl , the Indian ṭaṅkā , also ṭakā : see tanga n.¹ Carried in 16th cent. to Siam (now Thailand) by the Portuguese; later to Burma (now also called Myanmar). (See Sir R. C. Temple in Indian Antiquary XXVIII. 235, 253.)

A term long in use by foreign traders in Siam and more recently in Burma, applied to a silver coin and its weight, representing roughly the Indian rupee (originally the same as the ṭaṅkā), which has varied in value according to time and place, and in weight from more than to less than half an ounce Troy. (Sir R. C. Temple.) Also attributive.In Siam, according to Crawfurd, a weight = 225¹/ ₂ grains (according to Simmonds = 236 grains); also a silver coin of this weight, the value of which fell with that of silver. In Burma, a weight = 255·6 grains, the quasi-standard weight of current (uncoined) silver, said to be equivalent in value to about 1¹/ ₄ rupee.

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1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 130 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The money of this Country [Siam] is very good..; there are of it three sorts; Ticals, Mases, and Foangs.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xlvii. 164 Some were of pure Gold, others of Tecul Silver, which has no Alloy in it.

1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 317/2 The cost of sinking a new well is 2000 tecals flowered silver of the country, or 2500 sicca rupees.

1840 H. Malcom Trav. 41/1 They sometimes have a gold fuang, equal to eight ticals. The tical, assayed at the mint of Calcutta, yielded about one rupee three and a half annas, equal to 2s. 6d. sterling.

1858 T. Dalton in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 337 Last year the same rice sold for 19 ticals (equal to 60 cents each tical, or 2s. 6d. sterling).

1902 Daily Chron. 1 Dec. 5/7 A dispatch from Bangkok..says:—‘The Siamese Government has issued a decree fixing the gold standard on the basis of seventeen ticals to the pound’.

1907 Motor Boat 19 Sept. 179/1 American two-stroke motors..used to arrive in batches valued at 1,200 ticals each (1 tical = 1s. 5¾d.).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	tical
释义	ticaln. in Thailand/tɪˈkɑːl/in Burma/ˈtɪk(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1700s tecul(l, tecal(l, teecall, 1800s tickal, tycal, takel, tackal(l. Etymology: Representing, through Portuguese ticāl , the Indian ṭaṅkā , also ṭakā : see tanga n.¹ Carried in 16th cent. to Siam (now Thailand) by the Portuguese; later to Burma (now also called Myanmar). (See Sir R. C. Temple in Indian Antiquary XXVIII. 235, 253.) A term long in use by foreign traders in Siam and more recently in Burma, applied to a silver coin and its weight, representing roughly the Indian rupee (originally the same as the ṭaṅkā), which has varied in value according to time and place, and in weight from more than to less than half an ounce Troy. (Sir R. C. Temple.) Also attributive.In Siam, according to Crawfurd, a weight = 225¹/ ₂ grains (according to Simmonds = 236 grains); also a silver coin of this weight, the value of which fell with that of silver. In Burma, a weight = 255·6 grains, the quasi-standard weight of current (uncoined) silver, said to be equivalent in value to about 1¹/ ₄ rupee. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > coins of Thailand and Burma tical1662 pya1952 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 130 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The money of this Country [Siam] is very good..; there are of it three sorts; Ticals, Mases, and Foangs. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies II. xlvii. 164 Some were of pure Gold, others of Tecul Silver, which has no Alloy in it. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 317/2 The cost of sinking a new well is 2000 tecals flowered silver of the country, or 2500 sicca rupees. 1840 H. Malcom Trav. 41/1 They sometimes have a gold fuang, equal to eight ticals. The tical, assayed at the mint of Calcutta, yielded about one rupee three and a half annas, equal to 2s. 6d. sterling. 1858 T. Dalton in Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 337 Last year the same rice sold for 19 ticals (equal to 60 cents each tical, or 2s. 6d. sterling). 1902 Daily Chron. 1 Dec. 5/7 A dispatch from Bangkok..says:—‘The Siamese Government has issued a decree fixing the gold standard on the basis of seventeen ticals to the pound’. 1907 Motor Boat 19 Sept. 179/1 American two-stroke motors..used to arrive in batches valued at 1,200 ticals each (1 tical = 1s. 5¾d.). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1662
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