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1/8 Rupee - Anonymous / Yagya Narayan Singh First Series

Issuer Kishangarh, Princely state of
Year 1902-1938
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Reference(s) Y#9, Y#9a
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Reverse description Central field bears the name of the ruler Yagya Narayan in Devanagari script, accompanied by a stylised jhar (flower or plant spray) device, a heraldic emblem associated with the Kishangarh princely state. The design is boldly if roughly struck, with the floral motif and inscription filling the available flan in a manner characteristic of hammered coinage from this region. The flan edges are irregular, and the overall relief is uneven due to the hand-striking process.
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Kishangarh's coinage persisted well into the twentieth century largely because the princely states retained the right to issue currency under British paramountcy, provided the coins didn't directly compete with Imperial coinage in commerce — a provision honored more in theory than practice. The "Anonymous" attribution reflects genuine uncertainty about which ruler's reign specific die pairs belong to, as the state's records were not maintained with the precision that later researchers required. Yagya Narayan Singh ruled from 1926 until the series ended, placing the later strikes squarely in the final decades before integration into the Indian Union extinguished Kishangarh's minting authority entirely.

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