1 Larin - Muhammad Imaduddin II date at the bottom

The larin — a wire-coiled silver or billon piece — was the dominant trade currency of the Indian Ocean littoral for centuries, and the Maldives issued their own local variant as the archipelago sat directly on the dhow routes connecting the Persian Gulf to the Bay of Bengal. Muhammad Imaduddin II ruled as Sultan during a period of sustained Portuguese and later Dutch pressure on Maldivian autonomy, and coinage from his reign reflects the islands' effort to maintain independent monetary authority against repeated foreign interference. KM#14.2 distinguishes this variety from the otherwise near-identical 14.1 by the placement of the regnal date.