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Sequin   /sˈikwən/  /sˈikwɪn/   Listen
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Sequin  n.  (Written also chequin, and zequin)  An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value.






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"Sequin" Quotes from Famous Books



... goods to Italy. I must however confess to something, which brought me not a little money: I also employed my knowledge of physic. On reaching a town, I had it published that a Greek physician had arrived, who had already healed many; and in fact my balsam and medicine gained me many a sequin. Thus I had at length reached the ...
— The Severed Hand - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation • Wilhelm Hauff

... he was the last speaker) a change came over Sequin's manner, quick as a flash of lightning. Suddenly rousing himself from his attitude of indifference, he stepped forward in ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid

... Venetian sequin, worth about 50 sols, which was silver money and circulated at Goa. See ut ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair

... disdained to partake. He thought proper, however, to claim a part of those of the secretaryship, which is called the chancery. It was in time of war, and there were many passports issued. For each of these passports a sequin was paid to the secretary who made it out and countersigned it. All my predecessors had been paid this sequin by Frenchmen and others without distinction. I thought this unjust, and although I was not a Frenchman, I abolished ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau



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