1 Kasu

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Descrizione del rovescio	Central field bears a circular border enclosing Telugu script characters reading 'SRI VEE RA', an honorific royal epithet associated with the Madurai Nayak rulers. The inscription is arranged within a beaded or linear circular frame, rendered in low relief on the irregular copper flan. The legends are somewhat crude in execution, consistent with the hand-cast coinage tradition of the period.
Scrittura del rovescio	Telugu
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Informazioni aggiuntive	The Madurai Nayaks ruled as governors under the Vijayanagara Empire before asserting effective independence following Vijayanagara's collapse after the Battle of Talikota in 1565. By the mid-seventeenth century, Madurai operated its own mint with minimal external oversight. The kasu was the base unit of a currency system that ran parallel to, and often competed with, Portuguese and later Dutch trade currencies circulating along the Coromandel Coast. Attribution within this series remains genuinely difficult — die workmanship varied considerably between mints at Madurai and Tiruchirapalli, and the seventy-year span assigned to most specimens reflects that uncertainty rather than confirmed production dates.