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1 Jital - Hari Chandra Deva

Issuer Kangra, Kingdom of
Year 1405-1420
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Value 1 Jital
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Reverse script Nagari
Reverse lettering (Maha)raja Sri Hari (Chandra Deva)
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Kangra's Katoch dynasty ruled the hill tract between the Beas and Ravi rivers under persistent pressure from the Delhi Sultanate and, later, the expanding Timurid presence following Timur's 1398 sack of northern India. Hari Chandra Deva's reign falls squarely in the destabilized decades after that invasion, when Delhi's grip on the Punjab hills loosened enough to allow small Rajput kingdoms to reassert local coinage rights. The jital denomination had circulated across the subcontinent's northern hill states for centuries as the workhorse of low-value exchange.

AKJ#378 is a modestly documented type; collector references for Kangra copper remain thin compared to the silver series.