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11/2 Dokda - Victoria [Khengarji III]
| Issuer | Kutch, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1871-1879 |
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| Currency | Kori (1586-1947) |
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| Obverse description | Within a central circle, the Arabic numeral date in the Hijri Sana calendar appears alongside a dagger motif below. The outer margin bears a Urdu legend reading 'Malika Mu'azzamah Queen Victoria', identifying the reigning British monarch. The design reflects the hybrid Indo-Islamic administrative tradition of the Kutch princely state under British suzerainty. |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari |
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Kutch operated one of the more unusual dual-authority minting arrangements in British India: coins bore both the name of the reigning British sovereign and that of the local ruler, Khengarji III, who held the gaddi from 1876 after a regency period following his father Pragmalji II's death. The 1½ dokda denomination is specific to the Kutch reckoning system, which divided currency into dokdas, dhingla, and trambiyo rather than the anna-pice structure imposed elsewhere — a monetary independence the state jealously maintained well into the twentieth century.