1/2 Chuckram - Avittam Thirunal Bala Rama Varma

Avittam Thirunal Bala Rama Varma ruled Travancore for less than two years before dying in 1810, making issues from his reign among the briefest and scarcest in the entire Travancore series. The kingdom at this point was operating under the Subsidiary Alliance with the British East India Company, signed in 1795, which left the raja as nominal sovereign while British Residents exercised increasing administrative weight.

KM#7 in this denomination is seldom encountered, partly due to the abbreviated reign and partly because the half chuckram circulated hard in a region where small silver fractions were the backbone of daily commerce.