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1 Trambiyo - Muhammad Akbar II 1806-1837
| Issuer | Kutch, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1819-1860 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Central field occupied by a bold Persian legend in fluid naskh calligraphy, bearing the name and titles of the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Akbar II. The inscription is rendered across the flan in large, sweeping strokes characteristic of provincial hammered coinage. Small decorative pellets or dots are visible in the lower field. The irregular flan edge shows typical characteristics of hand-struck manufacture. |
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| Obverse lettering | محمد اکبر ثانی |
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The Trambiyo denomination was specific to Kutch's local currency system, which operated independently of British Indian coinage well into the nineteenth century. Kutch retained its own mint under the East India Company's indirect authority — a tolerated anomaly rooted in the 1819 treaty following the Bhuj earthquake, when British support during the reconstruction gave the durbar leverage to preserve certain sovereign privileges, including coinage rights.
Muhammad Akbar II was the Mughal emperor in Delhi, and his name appears on Kutch copper issues of this period as a feudal acknowledgment long after Mughal power had effectively collapsed.