1 Pagoda - Achyutaraya

Achyutaraya's reign was defined less by military ambition than by the political maneuvering of his brother-in-law Salkaraju Tirumala, who effectively controlled the court for much of this period. Coinage issued under his name continued the pagoda tradition established under his predecessor Krishnadevaraya, whose death in 1529 left the empire administratively weakened despite its territorial peak.

The pagoda denomination circulated widely enough to reach Portuguese merchants on the Malabar and Coromandel coasts, who recorded it by name in trade accounts — one of the earliest Western documentary references to a South Indian gold coin type.