1 Kasu - Krishnadevaraya 1509-1529

Krishnadevaraya's reign marked the political and cultural apex of the Vijayanagara Empire, a period when the empire controlled much of peninsular India and extracted enormous revenue from the spice trade passing through its ports. Small copper kasu served the everyday transactions that gold pagodas and silver fractions could not efficiently handle — markets, labor, petty commerce. The denomination existed largely beneath the documentary record, which is why die varieties within the type remain poorly catalogued despite reasonably frequent survivorship.