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1 Kasu - Meenakshi
| Issuer | Madurai, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1732 |
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| Diameter | 11 mm |
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| Obverse description | Heavily corroded and encrusted obverse field with design elements largely obscured by patination and surface degradation typical of hammered copper coinage of the Madurai Nayak period. The flan is irregular and slightly convex, consistent with hand-struck manufacture. No distinct legend or device is discernible on this face due to the advanced state of surface deterioration. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Madurai Nayaks ruled as nominally independent sovereigns under the Vijayanagara Empire and then as outright autonomous rulers following Vijayanagara's collapse after Talikota in 1565. By 1732 the dynasty was in its final years — the last Nayak ruler, Meenakshi, governed only briefly before the kingdom was absorbed by the Nawab of Arcot in 1736. This kasu was struck during that terminal period, making it one of the last issues of a dynasty that had governed the Tamil south for nearly two centuries.