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1 Kasu - Jatavarman Sundarapandyan III 1304 - 1319
| Issuer | Pandya dynasty (Southern India) |
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| Year | 1304-1319 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Central field displays a royal sceptre or crozier oriented vertically, flanked symmetrically by two fish in upright positions, a dynastic emblem emblematic of the Pandya rulers. The design is rendered in low relief typical of hammered copper coinage of medieval South India. The flan is irregular and the overall striking is characteristic of the period's crude but distinctive mint production. |
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| Reverse script | Tamil |
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Jatavarman Sundarapandyan III ruled during the terminal decline of Pandya power, a period bracketed by devastating Khalji sultanate raids — most consequentially Malik Kafur's 1311 campaign, which sacked Madurai and stripped the royal treasury of quantities of gold and elephants recorded by contemporary chroniclers as almost incomprehensible. That the copper kasu continued to be struck at all through this period suggests administrative continuity even as the dynasty's political authority was collapsing under sustained military pressure from the north.