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1 Kasu - Jatavarman Sundarapandyan I
| Issuer | Pandya dynasty |
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| Year | 1251-1268 |
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| Diameter | 19 mm |
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| Obverse script | Tamil |
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| Reverse description | A standing figure depicted in frontal orientation, rendered in a schematic and stylized manner typical of medieval South Indian copper coinage. The figure occupies the central field of the flan and is shown in a rigid, hieratic pose characteristic of the Pandya royal iconographic tradition. The die workmanship is crude, consistent with the irregular hammered technique employed for this series, and the relief is low with details partially obscured by wear and surface corrosion. |
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Jatavarman Sundarapandyan I was the most expansive ruler the Pandya dynasty produced, pushing territorial control deep into the Chola heartland and briefly into Sri Lanka during the 1250s and 1260s. His campaigns were funded in part by war indemnities extracted from defeated Chola kings, and copper coinage of this period circulated across a dramatically enlarged domain. The kasu denomination served everyday transactions in a polity that was, for a generation, the dominant power in peninsular South India.