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2 Rupees - Tipu Sultan Patan mint
| Issuer | Mysore Sultanate |
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| Year | 1784-1787 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | 1198 (1784) 2 - - 1198 (1784) 3 - - 1199 (1785) 3 - - 1200 (1786) 4 - - 1215 (1786) 5 - - 1216 (1787) 6 - - |
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Tipu Sultan inherited Mysore's throne in 1782 following his father Hyder Ali's death during the Second Anglo-Mysore War, and almost immediately undertook a systematic overhaul of the sultanate's coinage. The Patan mint — operating in what is now southern Karnataka — was among several regional facilities brought under tighter central control during this early reforming phase, which coincided with Tipu's preparations for renewed conflict with the East India Company.
KM#127 belongs to the transitional issues preceding Tipu's later introduction of a new calendar and regnal dating system after 1787, which makes this precisely datable window unusual for Mysore silver of the period.