Anantaraya 2 fanams - Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma

Karthika Thirunal Rama Varma ruled Travancore from 1758 to 1798, a reign defined in large part by the kingdom's fraught relationship with Hyder Ali and later Tipu Sultan of Mysore. The near-constant threat of Mysorean invasion — most acutely during the 1789–1790 campaign in which Tipu's forces breached the Nedumkotta defensive line — pushed Travancore into closer alignment with the British East India Company, formalized through the 1795 subsidiary alliance.

The fanam remained Travancore's primary gold denomination throughout this period, struck in large quantities to service temple economies and local trade. The Anantaraya type takes its name from the dynastic title invoking Ananta, the serpent deity of the Padmanabhaswamy temple at Thiruvananthapuram, to whom the Travancore rajas dedicated their kingdom.