sequestrum

[Lat. sequestro to separate.] (See def. and compound.) IMG:content-1232.png:[blocks in formation] coining, from Arab. sikkat (from sikkah ) = a die for coins. A gold coin, first struck at Venice about the end of the thirteenth century. In value it was worth from $2.20 to $2.27. "Treasuries where diamonds were piled in heaps, and sequins in mountains."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xviii.