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1/2 Trambiyo
| Issuer | Porbandar, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1570-1890 |
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| Value | 1/2 Trambiyo (1⁄48) |
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| Reverse description | Irregular hammered flan displaying a bold Devanagari or Gujarati legend in the central field, enclosed within a rectangular frame formed by double horizontal lines at the top and a single line at the base. The central characters, rendered in a schematic and angular style, likely denote the issuing authority or denomination. To the right, a hook-like ornamental device is visible. The crude workmanship and uneven flan edge are consistent with locally struck princely state coinage of Porbandar. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Porbandar's copper fractionals occupy an awkward corner of Indian numismatic history — the state issued coinage across a span of three centuries under the Jethwa Rajput rulers, but precise attribution within that window remains genuinely difficult. The trambiyo denomination itself is a regional unit, the name derived from a Gujarati corruption of "tambo," meaning copper, which tells you exactly how humble the coin's intended role was.
Catalog attribution to C#30 places this among the later local issues, though die-to-die consistency across the series is poor enough that individual specimens rarely match reference illustrations exactly.