1 Pagoda - Tirumalaraya

Tirumalaraya ruled as regent following the catastrophic defeat at Talikota in January 1565, when a coalition of the Deccan Sultanates destroyed the Vijayanagara army and sacked the imperial capital at Hampi. He never retook effective control of the empire's core territories, governing instead from Penukonda. Gold pagoda coinage continued to be struck through this period partly to maintain the fiction of imperial continuity — and partly because the dynasty's southern revenue base, though diminished, remained intact enough to supply bullion.