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1 Kasu - Hari Hara I 1343-56 AD
| Issuer | Vijayanagara, Empire of |
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| Year | 1343-1356 |
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| Currency | Rupee (1336-1565) |
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| Obverse description | Central field depicts a stylized elephant facing left in low relief, rendered in the characteristic crude hammered style of early Vijayanagara copper coinage. The animal's body is formed by a series of raised globular pellets, with the trunk and head discernible at left. A Kannada legend appears in the upper left field, reading 'ಹ' (ha), an abbreviation associated with the issuing ruler Hari Hara I. The coin is bordered by a partial ring of beads or pellets along the lower margin, typical of the decorative vocabulary employed on kasu denominations of this period. |
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| Obverse lettering | ಹ |
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Hari Hara I co-founded the Vijayanagara Empire alongside his brother Bukka Raya I after both had served — and apparently converted — under the Sultanate of Delhi before defecting south under disputed circumstances. Whether their return to Hindu rule was a genuine reconversion or a calculated political move remains argued. The empire they established at Hampi would hold the Deccan against Bahmani Sultanate pressure for over two centuries, but these early copper kasu issues predate the kingdom's mature administrative machinery by decades.