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1 Larin - Ibrahim Iskandar I date on obverse
| Issuer | Maldives |
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| Year | 1660-1666 |
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| Weight | 4.80 g |
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| Reverse description | Circular flan bearing a multi-line Arabic honorific inscription arranged in the field in a style consistent with Maldivian hammered silver coinage of the seventeenth century. The legend acclaims the ruler with the title Sultan of the Land and the Sea, a formula commonly employed on the coinage of the Maldivian sultanate. The script is boldly engraved in a cursive hand, filling the available field with flowing calligraphic strokes. The overall layout and style closely parallel the obverse, giving the coin a symmetrical, inscription-only appearance on both faces. |
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| Reverse lettering | السلطان البر والبحر السلطان (Translation: Sultan of the land and sea Sultan) |
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The larin was a wire-money denomination native to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean trade networks — a bent, folded rod of silver struck with a die rather than a cast or hammered disc. The Maldives adopted the form directly from Persian Gulf commerce, and their larins circulated alongside Indian and Arab merchant currency across the same sea routes. Ibrahim Iskandar I ruled during a period of sustained Portuguese and Dutch pressure on Maldivian trade autonomy, having expelled the Portuguese earlier in the century.
KM#2.1 distinguishes this variety by the presence of the date on the obverse, a feature not consistent across all larin issues of this sultan's reign.