Chapter FAGHFÚR to FANÁM of F by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

In Seton-Karr, i. 19.

1785.—“You are desired to lay a silver fanam, a piece worth three pence, upon the ground. This, which is the smallest of all coins, the elephant feels about till he finds.” —Caraccioli’s Life of Clive, i. 288.

1803.—“The pay I have given the boatmen is one gold fanam for every day they do not work, and two gold fanams for every day they do.”—From Sir A. Wellesley, in Life of Munro, i. 342.

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