8 Cash - Chithira Thirunal Bala Rama Varma II

Travancore maintained its own coinage well into the twentieth century, one of the few Indian princely states that continued striking currency with genuine local circulation rather than as a nominal exercise. Chithira Thirunal Bala Rama Varma II, who acceded in 1931 at age eighteen under the regency of his aunt Sethu Lakshmi Bayi, presided over Travancore through the tumultuous final years of British paramountcy. The state merged into the Indian Union in 1949, which effectively ended this series mid-run.