further reading... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_money http://www.cowry.org/archive/NSN306CY.HTM#C
gandey nikammey kameen, mehengey hoN kowri ke teen, kaun hamein paalta, tum peh karoroN darood. kowri or cowrie was indeed a currency.
not so fast. validation still required. curious that i was, i did a quick search but apparently, the only source i could locate in the past ten minutes was this facebook post that pegs a "phootie cowrie". i checked dictionaries, and apparently, they all seem to think that it is a phrase meaning "absolutely nothing" [assuming cowrie was a currency, which it was; broken cowrie would be worthless - hence the phrase]. even this book makes no mention of broken cowries. a little deeper search led to an (apparently authoritative book) "indian coins" by one sircar. even that does not mention a phootie cowrie as an actual currency - unless of course it was used as chillar in those times... [chillar = loose change]. --- my two [3.9 x 10^-5]s
i never knew that phootie (broken) cowrie had a real currency denomination, i thought it was a mere term for a cowrie gone worthless due to breaking. till now, something said to be not worth a phootie cowrie , i thought it was being ruled to be absolutely worthless, i only know now, that all it means is that it ruled to be precisely worth lesser than 1/2560 th of a rupee.
