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Sometimes, 50 Paise is colloquially referred to as 8 Annas (''Ettu Anna'', pronounced "Ettna") and 25 Paise as 4 Annas (''Naal Anna'', pronounced "Naalna") in Tamil , and ''Chawanni'' meaning 'four Annas" in most parts of North India . There was a coin of one anna, and also half-annas of copper and two-anna pieces of silver. The term anna is frequently used to express a fraction of 1/16. Thus an Anglo-Indian speaks of two annas of dark blood (an Octoroon ), a four-anna (quarter) crop, an eight-anna (half) gallop. REFERENCES |
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