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1 Kasu - Sivagangai Nayaks
| Issuer | Vijayanagara, Empire of |
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| Year | 1570-1600 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Two standing figures facing forward, depicted in a crude but recognizable manner consistent with representations of Shiva and Parvati (Uma-Maheshvara) as divine consorts. The figures appear conjoined or standing in close embrace, with simplified drapery indicated by incised lines. The design occupies the full field of the irregular flan and is rendered in the naïve artistic idiom typical of late Vijayanagara-period Nayak copper kasu coinage. |
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| Mintage | ND (1570-1600) |
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The Sivagangai Nayaks operated as semi-autonomous chiefs under the broader Vijayanagara framework following the catastrophic defeat at Talikota in 1565, when the empire's political center effectively collapsed under the Deccan Sultanate coalition. Local Nayak rulers across the Tamil south continued issuing coinage in the imperial name well into the late sixteenth century — less as a statement of fealty than as a practical assertion of regional legitimacy in the power vacuum that followed.