Æ Kasu - Hoysala Anonymous Issue

The Hoysala dynasty ruled much of what is now Karnataka from roughly the 11th century until their kingdom was absorbed by the nascent Vijayanagara Empire in the mid-14th century, and their copper kasu issues are among the least systematically documented coinages of medieval South India. Attribution within the series is complicated by the near-total absence of ruler names on these pieces — hence the "anonymous" designation — making die studies the primary tool for sequencing them within the dynasty's three-and-a-half centuries of production.