1613. Purchas, Pilgrimage, VII. iv. (1614), 675. Euery Zequi being sixteene ryals, and with vs eight shillings.
a. 1701. [see SEQUIN sb. 1].
1765. Smollett, Trav., xxx. (1766), II. 107. Two scudi make a zequine; and a French louidore is worth about two zequines.