25 Cash - Krishnaraja Wodeyar III

Krishnaraja Wadiyar III ruled Mysore for over six decades but held real power for only a fraction of that time. The British East India Company deposed him in 1831 on charges of misrule and administered the state directly until 1881 — long after his death. Coins issued under his name during the post-1831 period were struck by a British-controlled administration, making the issuing authority a bureaucratic fiction rather than a functioning royal mint.

KM#126 spans that entire fraught period, and examples struck before and after the 1831 takeover can show subtle differences in execution reflecting the change in oversight.