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1 Dhingla - Vikmatji IV Khimaji
| Issuer | Porbandar, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1850 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Irregular square hammered copper flan bearing incuse Devanagari or local script legends arranged across the field in multiple lines, with the inscription denoting the issuing authority and denomination. The surface shows characteristic hammered texture with slightly bevelled edges and natural flan irregularities typical of Indian princely state coinage of the mid-nineteenth century. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Porbandar's coinage in the mid-nineteenth century was issued under the Jethwa Rajput rulers, a dynasty that maintained its small coastal state on the Kathiawar peninsula largely through careful accommodation of British paramountcy. Vikmatji IV Khimaji ruled during a period when the Political Agent's oversight was tightening across Kathiawar, and locally-struck copper issues like this dhingla were among the last expressions of autonomous monetary authority the smaller Kathiawar states would exercise before standardization pressure intensified later in the century.
The dhingla denomination itself is specific to the Kathiawar region's traditional weight-based system, distinct from the broader Gujarat monetary conventions.