1 Kasu - Venkatapati Deva Raya II

Venkatapati Deva Raya II ruled the Thanjavur Nayak kingdom as a subordinate of the Vijayanagara Empire during its terminal decline — the catastrophic defeat at Talikota in 1565 had already fragmented Vijayanagara authority into competing Nayak successor states, each asserting increasing independence through their own coinage. The Thanjavur Nayaks were originally Telugu military governors appointed by Vijayanagara; by Venkatapati's reign, that fiction of subordination was wearing thin.

Copper kasu of this type circulated at the lowest transactional level — grain markets, small temple offerings, daily labor payments in the agrarian Kaveri delta economy.