Rupee, a silver coin, the monetary unit of India, whose face value is 2s., but which, owing to the depreciation of silver, is now valued in outside markets at about 1s. 2½d.; a lac of rupees equals 100,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Runnimede * Rupert, Prince