A variant spelling or historical form of a coin or monetary unit, possibly related to 'abassi' or the Abbasid Dynasty's economic influence.
Likely a variant of 'abassi' or a related term from Middle Eastern monetary systems influenced by the Abbasid era. The exact etymology is uncertain, as this is an extremely rare historical term.
This word is so obscure that even historians of currency have trouble tracking down exactly which coin or denomination it refers to—it's a ghost word that haunts old dictionaries, reminding us that not all historical terms survived into modern usage.
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