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An anna (or ?nna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to 1?16 of a rupee. It was subdivided into four pices or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise, one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise. The anna was demonetised as a currency unit when India decimalised its currency in 1957. Anna is derived from the Sanskrit ????, meaning "food".