noun
- a former monetary unit of India, equal to one quarter of an anna
Usage: historical
Examples
- The old man remembered when you could buy sweets for a few pice.
- Four pice made one anna in the old Indian currency system.
- The shopkeeper counted out the pice carefully.
- Before decimal currency, pice were commonly used in daily transactions.
- The coin was worth only a pice, but it meant everything to the child.