1 Larin - Ibrahim Iskandar II

Obverse description	Central field bearing a two-line Arabic inscription divided by a horizontal rule, reading 'Al-Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar' (Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar). The calligraphy is rendered in a bold, naive hand characteristic of Maldivian hammered billon coinage of the early eighteenth century. The legends fill the flan to the rim, with no border ornament on the basic type, though variants exhibit escalloped circles or diamond borders as noted in KM#16.2 and KM#16.3 respectively.
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Reverse script	Arabic
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Additional information	The larin was an archaic wire-coil currency form already obsolete across most of the Indian Ocean world by the time these were struck — the Maldives held onto the format long after Persia, the Gulf, and Ceylon had abandoned it. Ibrahim Iskandar II ruled for nearly two decades, and his larins circulated primarily through the cowrie trade networks that made the archipelago commercially significant far beyond its size. The three KM variants reflect differences in the billon alloy composition across the reign, a known issue with Maldivian monetary production of this period where silver content fluctuated with supply.