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Records of former Indian currency oddly lost (6)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

annals

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'records' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'former indian currency oddly lost' is the wordplay.
'former indian currency' becomes 'anna' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'oddly' means one should take alternating letters.
The alternate letters of 'lost' are 'ls'.
'anna'+'ls'='ANNALS'

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(Other definitions for annals that I've seen before include "Chronological records, yearbooks" , "History of events year by year" , "Yearly records" , "The Four Masters wrote them in 17th century" , "Registers" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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