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1/2 Pice - Victoria [Anand Rao Pawar III]
| Issuer | Dhar, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1887 |
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| Technique | Milled |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | VICTORIA EMPRESS |
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Dhar was a small Maratha-ruled state in central India under British paramountcy, and its coinage occupied an awkward administrative position — technically sovereign issues struck under a feudatory ruler, yet circulating alongside imperial British copper in the same markets. Anand Rao Pawar III ruled Dhar from 1857 until his death in 1898, a tenure that coincided almost exactly with the formal consolidation of the British Raj following the suppression of the 1857 uprising. The timing matters: many princely states quietly curtailed their own coin issues under post-Mutiny pressure, making Dhar's continued production into the 1880s a minor act of jurisdictional persistence.
KM#12 is among the final issues attributable to this ruler before the state's coinage effectively ceased.