Catalog
1 Fanam - Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma VI
| Issuer | Travancore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | Central field bearing the royal cypher RV — an interlaced monogram for Rama Varma — rendered in ornate raised lettering and enclosed within a raised circle of beads. Flanking the central circle at left and right are small rosette ornaments. Surrounding the beaded circle, the denomination legend reads in English at the top arc and in Malayalam at the bottom arc, with the complete inscription reading ONE FANAM in English and the equivalent in Malayalam script. The entire design is contained within an outer beaded border. |
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| Mintage | 1911: ND (1911) |
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Moolam Thirunal Rama Varma VI ruled Travancore under British paramountcy, with the kingdom's coinage operating through its own mint at Trivandrum — one of the few princely states permitted to maintain an active mint into the twentieth century. The fanam had circulated in South India for centuries before this issue, its name derived from the Sanskrit paṇa, and by 1911 it was already an anachronism kept alive largely by local commercial habit and the conservatism of the Travancore treasury.