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1 Jital - Avatara Chandra Deva
| Issuer | Kangra, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1450-1465 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Reverse description | Three-line Sharada script legend filling the field, reading 'Maharaja Sri Avatara Chandra Deva', the royal epithet of the issuing ruler of the Kangra Kingdom. The characters are raised in low relief against a flat field, executed in a rough but legible hand consistent with the hammered coinage of the 15th-century Kangra hill states. The inscription is contained within the irregular flan without a formal border. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Chandra Deva ruled Kangra during a period of persistent pressure from the Lodi Sultanate to the south and the expanding hill chieftancies to the east. The jital denomination itself is a carry-over from earlier Indo-Muslim monetary practice, absorbed into the coinage systems of the Rajput hill states long after its original administrative framework had dissolved. Tye 76 is among the more consistently documented types for Kangra copper, though die alignment and flan preparation vary considerably across surviving specimens — a predictable consequence of small-scale hill-state minting with no centralized quality control.