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‖ tical
(in Thailand tɪˈkɑːl, in Burma ˈtɪk(ə)l)
Also 8 tecul(l, tecal(l, teecall, 9 tickal, tycal, takel, tackal(l.
[Representing, through Pg. ticāl, the Indian ṭaṅkā, also ṭakā: see tanga1. Carried in 16th c. to Siam (Thailand) by the Portuguese; later to Burma. (See Sir R. C. Temple in Indian Antiquary XXVIII. 235, 253.)]
A term long in use by foreign traders in Siam (Thailand) and more recently in Burma, applied to a silver coin and its weight, representing roughly the Indian rupee (orig. 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 attrib.
In Siam, according to Crawfurd, a weight = 225½ grs. (according to Simmonds = 236 grs.); 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.
1662J. Davies tr. Mandelslo's Trav. 130 The money of this Country [Siam] is very good..; there are of it three sorts; Ticals, Mases, and Foangs. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. xlvii. 164 Some were of pure Gold, others of Tecul Silver, which has no Alloy in it. 1800Misc. Tracts in Asiatic Ann. Reg. 317/2 The cost of sinking a new well is 2000 tecals flowered silver of the country, or 2500 sicca rupees. 1840H. 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. 1858T. Dalton in Merc. Marine Mag. V. 337 Last year the same rice sold for 19 ticals (equal to 60 cents each tical, or 2s. 6d. sterling). 1902Daily 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’. 1907Motor Boat 19 Sept. 179/1 American two-stroke motors..used to arrive in batches valued at 1,200 ticals each (1 tical = 1s. 53/4d.). |