or portcullis money, subs. phr. (old colloquial).—Money, of various values, temp. Elizabeth, struck for the East India Company (est. 1599): also INDIA MONEY [it bore a PORTCULLIS verso].
1599. JONSON, Every Man out of his Humour, iii. 6. It comes well, for I had not so much as the least PORTCULLICE of coyn before.
