1/2 Larin 'Kuda' - Hasan Nooraddeen I with line over date

The larin coinage of the Maldives descends from a wire-money tradition — the name itself derives from a bent silver rod form once common across the Persian Gulf trade network. By the late eighteenth century, the islands had shifted to struck copper for fractional denominations, and the kuda (small) larin occupied the lowest practical tier of daily exchange in an economy running almost entirely on fish and cowrie shells. The line drawn over the date on this variety is a die-state distinction that separates KM#29.1 from related issues, likely a workshop notation rather than an intentional denomination marker.