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1⁄12 Anna - Victoria [Narayan Rao] Senior Branch
| Issuer | Dewas State |
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| Year | 1888 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of Queen Victoria, crowned with the Imperial State Crown adorned with foliate ornament, her hair arranged in curled ringlets at the nape with a pearl necklace visible at the décolletage. The effigy is rendered in high relief with fine detail to the crown, hair, and elaborately embroidered bodice. The legend VICTORIA EMPRESS is disposed in two arcs flanking the portrait, reading left and right respectively. The entire design is contained within a beaded border running the full circumference of the coin. |
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| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA EMPRESS |
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Dewas was one of the stranger political arrangements the British tolerated in Central India — a single town split down the middle between two Maratha chiefs descended from brothers, each ruling his own "Senior" or "Junior" branch with separate courts, separate troops, and separate coinage. The Senior Branch chief in 1888 was Narayan Rao III, whose state issued copper fractions like this one under the nominal suzerainty of the Crown while retaining the right to strike its own money.
KM#11 is among the more obscure entries in the Dewas series, with no recorded mintage figures surviving in accessible colonial records.