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1 Trambiyo - George V [Khengarji III]
| Issuer | Kutch, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1928 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Central field displays a stylized trident ornament at top, above the denomination legend in Devanagari script reading 'Trambiyo', with the Vikram Samvat date 1985 inscribed in Devanagari numerals below. The circular legend around the field reads the name and titles of Maharao Shri Khengarji of Kutch, all enclosed within a continuous beaded border. Six-pointed stars appear at either side of the lower legend as decorative punctuation. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Kutch maintained its own coinage authority well into the twentieth century, one of the few princely states permitted to strike copper in its own name alongside the dominant British Imperial issues. The 1928 date falls under Khengarji III, the Maharao who oversaw Kutch through the late colonial period and negotiated its administration carefully enough to preserve these minting privileges long after most comparable states had lost them.
The trambiyo denomination — one-eighth of an anna — served the lowest-value transactions in coastal Kutch, where the economy ran heavily on salt trading and small-boat commerce through the Rann.