¾ Kori - Jafarabad Dependancy of Janjira

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.