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1 Pagoda - Haidar Ali
| Issuer | Mysore, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1761-1782 |
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| Value | 1 Pagoda |
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| Obverse description | Deity Shiva accompanied by Parvati, both seated facing, rendered in a stylized indigenous manner characteristic of Mysore coinage. Shiva holds a trishul (trident) in hand. The figures are set within a plain field typical of South Indian hammered gold pagodas of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (1761-1782) |
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Haidar Ali never held a royal title — he ruled Mysore as de facto sovereign while the Wadiyar dynasty's figurehead kings remained nominally on the throne. His coinage is therefore a study in practical power: issued under his authority, circulating through a kingdom he controlled militarily and administratively, yet technically struck in a constitutional grey zone that his son Tipu Sultan would eventually resolve by simply abolishing the old dynasty. The pagoda denomination itself was a South Indian standard long predating Haidar's rise, adapted here for a ruler who came from a relatively obscure military family and seized Mysore from its own ministers in 1761.