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1 Cash - Tirunelveli Madurai
| Issuer | Nawabdom of the Carnatic (Indian Hindu Dynasties) |
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| Year | 1752-1759 |
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| Value | 1 Cash (1⁄512) |
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| Reverse description | Reverse field bears crudely struck Tamil script characters filling the available flan surface, consistent with hammered cash coinage of the Carnatic region. The inscription reads 'Ti / Na / Ve / Li', denoting the mint or issuing locality of Tirunelveli. Letter forms are characteristic of 18th-century Tamil script, with bold strokes and irregular spacing owing to the hand-struck production method. The flan is irregular in outline, and the die impression is slightly off-center, as is common for this type. No border, exergue, or additional decorative elements are present. |
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| Reverse lettering | தி ன வெ லி (Translation: Ti / Na / Ve / Li (Tirunelveli)) |
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The Nawabdom of the Carnatic by the 1750s was effectively a contested fiction — the nawabs nominally ruled under Mughal suzerainty while the British and French East India Companies manipulated succession disputes to extract territorial and trading concessions. This particular issue falls squarely within the years of the Carnatic Wars, when Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah held the nawabship largely because Robert Clive and British arms kept him there. Tirunelveli and Madurai, both deep in the Tamil south, had their own administrative histories long predating Carnatic authority, and local copper coinage continued largely on indigenous terms regardless of who nominally controlled the revenue.