1 Larin - Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI

The larin was a deeply archaic monetary unit by 1900 — wire-based larins had circulated across the Indian Ocean trade world since the sixteenth century, and the Maldives clung to the denomination long after neighboring regions had abandoned it. Muhammad Imaaduddeen VI issued this copper piece during a sultanate that operated under British protection, formalized in 1887, leaving monetary decisions as one of the few expressions of local administrative authority the sultanate still controlled outright.