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1 Cash
| Issuer | Nawab of Carnatic |
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| Year | 1690-1801 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse description | Stylized figure of a Hindu deity depicted in the field, rendered in a crude, provincial hammered style characteristic of South Indian cash coinage. The figure appears to be standing or seated, with indistinct attributes visible. The coin's small flan and hammered technique result in a somewhat irregular, flat relief design with minimal surface detail. |
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| Reverse description | Abstract symbol in the field consisting of a vertical stroke intersected by a horizontal bar, resembling a simplified fish or trident motif, a common device found on South Indian cash coinage of the Carnatic region. Two small pellets or dots appear to the left of the central symbol. The design is crude and lightly struck, typical of provincially produced hammered copper cash of this period. |
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The Nawabs of Carnatic occupied an increasingly uncomfortable position through the 18th century — nominally Mughal governors, then clients of the Nizam of Hyderabad, then effectively instruments of the East India Company following Clive's campaigns of the 1750s. By the time Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah consolidated his long reign, the Nawab's practical authority had largely been subordinated to Madras. The coinage continued regardless, its dates spanning political arrangements that bore little resemblance to one another.
KM#11 was issued across that entire contested stretch, which complicates attribution of individual pieces to specific reigns.