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¾ Kori - Jafarabad Dependancy of Janjira
| Issuer | Princely state of Janjira (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1759-1900 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#1 |
| Obverse description | Central device of a stylized Shah (royal cipher) rendered within a raised incuse circle, the motif occupying the majority of the flat square flan. The design is boldly struck in low relief against a plain field, with the irregular hammered flan exhibiting characteristic beveled edges and surface granularity consistent with billon coinage of the Kathiawar region. |
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| Mintage | ND (1759-1900) |
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Jafarabad was a small coastal dependency of Janjira, itself an unusual survivor among Indian princely states — uniquely ruled by the Sidi, an Afro-Arab dynasty whose ancestors arrived as Abyssinian naval commanders in Mughal service and gradually seized autonomous control of the Konkan coast. The Janjira Sidis resisted Maratha pressure, Portuguese encroachment, and later British renegotiation of their status across several centuries, which explains the extraordinary date range attributed to this type.
Billon coinage of this weight class was essentially fiduciary from the start, with silver content low enough that the metal value rarely approached face value.