10 Cash

The Madras Presidency's cash coinage existed within a genuinely chaotic monetary environment — the region circulated at least half a dozen indigenous copper denominations simultaneously, and the Company's repeated attempts to rationalize the system through the early nineteenth century met consistent resistance from bazaar traders who distrusted unfamiliar coin sizes. The 1807 issue falls squarely in that transitional period, before the Company's consolidation efforts gained real traction.

KM#326 is frequently encountered with considerable porosity, a consequence of the substandard copper alloys available to the Madras mint at the time.