Meanings
nounshroffage (uncountable)
alternative shraffage · alternative sherofferage
- historicaluncountableThe commission paid to a shroff for examining coins for quality.
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 491 more example
Shraffage is halfe a riall per every thousand rialls.
1629, cited in William Foster, The English Factories in India, page 354
Origin
From shroff (“to examine coin for debasement etc.”) + -age (“forming nouns regarding a rate or charge”).
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