2 Annas - Jafar Ali Khan

Cambay's coinage authority was always precarious. The state's rulers operated under tight British paramountcy, and by the 1890s the Political Department had largely standardized currency across Gujarat's princely territories. That Cambay continued striking its own silver fractions this late is somewhat anomalous — most comparable states had surrendered minting rights earlier in the century. Jafar Ali Khan ruled from 1880 until his death in 1915, and KM#7 represents one of the last indigenous silver issues from a state whose port had once been among the most active on the western coast of India.