5 Jitals - Krishna Devaraya

Krishna Devaraya's reign is widely regarded as the political and cultural apex of the Vijayanagara Empire, a period when the southern Hindu kingdom held off repeated Bahmani Sultanate pressure while simultaneously commanding one of the most lucrative trade networks on the subcontract — Portuguese merchants at Goa were, by the 1510s, supplying the empire with warhorses in exchange for cotton and spices on terms that enriched both sides considerably. Copper coinage of this reign circulated heavily in local markets where the gold pagoda was simply too valuable for everyday exchange.

The MSI reference range spanning eight catalog numbers reflects genuine die and weight variation across a twenty-year production run.