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1 Cash - Frederik III
| Issuer | Danish East India Company |
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| Year | 1648-1670 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1648-1670) |
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The Danish East India Company's Tranquebar settlement, established on the Coromandel Coast in 1620, required small-denomination coinage for local bazaar transactions where European silver was simply too valuable to change hands. Lead cash filled that gap, functioning as a purely local scrip rather than trade currency. The Company held its Tranquebar concession under treaty with the Nayak of Tanjore, and these coins circulated within that narrow geography almost exclusively.
KM#71 spans a 22-year reign attribution, meaning individual pieces cannot be dated more precisely than the bracket.