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5 Cash - Krishnaraja Wodeyar III
| Issuer | Mysore, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1811-1813 |
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| Value | 5 Cash (1⁄192) |
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| Obverse description | Central device depicting an elephant in profile, facing left, positioned below the auspicious Kannada syllable 'Sri' rendered in Kannada script within an arch or shrine-like border at the top of the field. A solar symbol (sun) appears to the upper left and a crescent moon to the upper right of the 'Sri' legend, flanking it symmetrically. The entire central design is enclosed within a beaded border that follows the irregular flan. The style is characteristic of the crude hammered coinage of the Mysore princely state under Krishnaraja Wodeyar III. |
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| Reverse description | Three-line Kannada legend occupying the central field, conveying the denomination and regal inscription in the Kannada script of the Mysore princely administration. The English denomination 'V Cash' appears along the lower portion of the reverse, though this English inscription is frequently encountered in a blundered or retrograde state on surviving specimens, reflecting the limitations of hand-struck production. The design is contained within a beaded or rope-like border consistent with the obverse. The overall execution is typical of the crude but historically significant cash coinage of Krishnaraja Wodeyar III. |
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Krishnaraja Wadiyar III ascended the Mysore throne at age four in 1799, the same year Tipu Sultan fell at Seringapatam and the British restored the Wadiyar dynasty as a dependent princely state. This copper cash issue falls within the early years of his reign, when the actual administration of Mysore was effectively managed by the East India Company's Divan, Purnaiya, until 1811 — making these coins products of a court that was, for practical purposes, still finding its own footing.